Essay on Hypertension

that answer was yes. There has been a lot of heart issues that have led to death on my maternal side. One of my mother’s grandfathers and her mother died of cardiomyopathy which is a hereditary heart disease. My grandpa takes medications for hypertension (high blood pressure). My mother mentioned that he smoked most of his life up until I was born. She said since I was the first grandchild of his, he wanted to stay alive as long as possible. I have two aunts and one uncle on my mother’s side.

Essential hypertension is high blood pressure that does not have a known cause. Blood pressure is the force of blood against your artery walls as your heart pumps blood through your body. Hypertension occurs when the force of blood is too strong. Blood pressure readings have two numbers. The first number is your systolic pressure. Systolic pressure measures the force of blood against your artery walls as the blood is pumped out of your heart to the rest of your body. The second number measures your

symptoms that reflect impaired left ventricular function. Some but not all patients with HF present with clinical manifestations of volume overload” (p. 8). My patient had multiple factors that played a role in her diagnosis of CHF which include hypertension, shortness of breath, fatigue, and being a borderline diabetic. She has had both a pacemaker and coronary stent placed inside of her due to cardiovascular problems. Treatment for CHF includes rest, a heart healthy diet, medications, and lifestyle

is called the "silent killer." Some ways hypertension can come about is from family history, sodium, and obesity. What I was unaware of that you could have hypertension at a young age. At 20 years I was told by my doctor, I had a moderate case of hypertension. I was giving medication to prevent my blood pressure from skyrocketing. At this point, I knew I had to watch my diet, set regular doctor appointments, and start exercising more.        Hypertension is severe and a dangerous health problem if

Preeclampsia is a condition that occurs only during pregnancy. Some symptoms of preeclampsia may include high blood pressure and protein in the urine, occurring after week 20 of pregnancy. Preeclampsia is often precluded by gestational hypertension. While high blood pressure during pregnancy does not necessarily indicate preeclampsia, it may be a sign of another problem. Preeclampsia affects at least 3-5% of pregnancies. If undiagnosed, preeclampsia can lead to eclampsia, a serious condition that

Introduction 1.1) Aims and objectives of this research This report will focus on the health implications present for an individual under metabolic stress. The type of metabolic stress that will be the focus of this report is the metabolic disease of hypertension and cardio-vascular disease. Key areas that will be focused on throughout this report include, the study of an individual’s dietary intake and the body’s reserves of macro and micro nutrients, which will be related to possible health implications

from high blood pressure, I think it’s necessary that restaurants and other food companies cut down on salt. III. Causes diseases “Hypertension afflicts 67 million Americans, including nearly two-thirds of people over age 60,” says Thomas A. Farley. And according to him and other health experts, this is no surprise because of how high the salt intake is. Hypertension (high blood pressure), is when the force of blood pushing against your blood vessel walls are above the normal range (Cleveland Clinic)

What is the Dash Diet? The Dash diet is a diet that is considered a lifelong approach to eating healthy. This diet was originally designed to prevent hypertension (high blood pressure) in both hypertensive, pre-hypertensive, and normotensive people; and this was done through reducing the intake of sodium by switching over to healthier foods that are rich in nutrients, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. This diet if followed in the correct way has been shown to reduce your blood pressure within just

At one point in our lives we all have been told to “act our age”. But what is our real age? According to Whitbourne, “Psychologists who study aging long ago dispensed with the value of chronological age as a variable to use in research. For one thing, it’s not an ‘independent’ variable because it can’t be experimentally manipulated” (2012). In other words, chronological age is arbitrary. Dr. Mehmet Oz agrees, and along with Dr. Mike Roize, they have developed an online assessment tool to help

Part 1 Patient • Mr Timothy Jones • 38 years old Presenting Complaint Essential Hypertension. Blood pressure control lost on current therapy Type of Prescribing This is an episode of Supplementary Prescribing. It is defined as, ‘A voluntary partnership between a doctor or dentist and a supplementary prescriber to implement an agreed patient specific clinical management plan (CMP) with the patients’ agreement’. (DOH, 2007) Mr Jones benefits from Supplementary Prescribing as it ensures timely access