Essay on Hypertension

Mrs Alice Palmer is 54 years old, female and has had hypertension for years but does not take medication for it. Ischaemic strokes are usually caused by blood clots that form and block vessels to the bloodstream resulting in tissue in the brain dying. (Stroke Foundation - Australia, 2016). Compared to another 54 year old woman who doesn’t have hypertension, Mrs Palmer’s risk of a stroke is higher due to the hypertension. Age is another factor that contributes to the risk of having a stroke especially

In the 2010 census, 42.0 million people, approximately 14 percent of the U.S. population, identified themselves as black or African American. African American (AA) experience higher prevalence of many diseases, disability, death, and injury (cdc 1). It is observed that AA females are more likely to suffer from obesity, diabetes and heart diseases more than their White counterparts. Among AA females aged 2–19 years old, 24% are considered obese compared to 14% whites. A similar pattern was reported

Introduction Every human body contains one pair of kidneys. They are situated towards the back of the body under the ribs, just at the level of the waist, with one on each side of the body. Each kidney is composed of about one million units called nephrons, and each nephron consists of two parts: a filter, called the glomerulus and a tubule leading out from the nephrons (Cameron 1999). According to Marshall and Bangert (2008), the kidneys have three major functions: firstly, the kidneys

My patient is a 68-year-old Indian male. His health issues include hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, hyperlipidemia, cellulitis, and insomnia. He has been in the facility for 3 years. My patient’s weight is 156 lbs. and there were no major weight changes for the time he has been in the facility. My patient needs assistance with either wheelchair or a walker, is able to ambulate with or without a device. He is not allergic to anything, therefore, no modification to the medication is needed. The primary

diseases not only affect the United States as a whole, but developing countries as well (Chilha et al., 2012, pp. 697,240). Developing countries have had increasing cases of diabetes that have led to a number of other health complications including hypertension, a disease that is characterized by an increase in arterial blood pressure. Haffner and colleagues discuss in their article, “Mortality From Coronary Heart Disease In Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes And In Non-Diabetic Subjects With and Without Prior

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common type of heart dysrhythmia which causes the irregular beating of the two atria in the heart. The cause of AF is multiple atrial ectopic foci firing randomly and chaotically. Atria rhythm can be completely disorganized at a rate of 350 to 600 times per minute by the multiple rapid impulses from numerous atrial foci, so the atria are in a quiver status; the ventricles beat with a rapid rate due to the rapid atrial impulses (Ignatavicius and Workman, 2013)

According to Rutten (2003), in general practice majority of the patients with HF where elderly women suffering from chronic hypertension, whereas there seems to be a higher number of men with CHF being treated by a cardiologist as appose to the general physician (Rutten, 2003). Cardiol (2011) agreed that women with CHF seems to be more common. In postmenopausal women are more vulnerable

person has difficulty breathing. Dysnea is the unpleasant or uncomfortable breathing sensation a patients gets. 4. Mr. Thomas does not have hypertension. According to your textbook, what is the blood pressure that is usually considered high? - Hypertension (HTN) is, “blood pressure above normal range” (Frucht, 2012 P.124). Mr. Thomas’ does not have hypertension, however, according to the textbook the blood pressure that is usually considered high is systolic pressure above 140 mmHg or diastolic pressure

The risk factors for stroke can be classified into non-modifiable and modifiable. Non-modifiable risk factors include age, family history, prior stroke, gender, and race. Whereas modifiable risk factors are hypertension, diabetes mellitus, coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, dyslipidemia, cigarette smoking, obesity, valvular heart disease, alcohol abuse, and physical inactivity (Basharat et al., 2012). Age is one of the non-modifiable risk factors.

adequate system for reporting medical services (Giannangelo, 2010). Third Scenario Few days after the treatment, the patient is ready to be discharged from the hospital. Although the patient is recovered, he needs a follow-up care because pulmonary hypertension treatments are complex according to the Mayo Clinic (2012). At this point of the process, I think the use of uniform hospital discharge data set (UHDDS) would be appropriate because it would allow the collection of patient data. In case, UHDDS