Category Archives: Hypertension
Diagnostic Tests of Aortic-Dissection
The diagnostic tests for aortic dissection include chest X-ray, ECG, and CT scan. When a patient has a dissecting aortic aneurysm, a chest X-ray may reveal a left pleural effusion. An ECG helps in differentiating aortic insufficiency from ascending aortic … Continue reading
Diagnostic Tests to Detect Cerebrovascular Disease
The diagnostic tests used to detect cerebrovascular disease include computed tomography, Cn scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), cerebral angiography, and digital subtraction angiography.By using a contrast medium to enhance the view of cerebral vessels, a CT scan helps determine whether … Continue reading
Information Of Antihypertensive Drugs
Many types of diuretics are used to mobilize edematous fluid, reduce pulmonary vein pressure, and reduce preload. Usually, a physician first prescribes a thiazide diuretic. These drugs reduce hypertension and treat edema by inhibiting sodium reabsorption in the distal renal … Continue reading
Classifying Hypertension by Severity
The current system for classifying blood pressure in people over age 18 defines normal and high normal blood pressure and four categories of increasingly severe hypertension . A patient who has a reading of 130/85 mm Hg or less and … Continue reading
How to Identify Hypertension
At first, many patients with hypertension have no symptoms. As the disease progresses, some patients actually become accustomed to its symptoms-headaches, dizziness, and blurred visionand view them as insignificant. Thus, diagnosing and treating hypertension may require a thorough patient assessment. … Continue reading
Health History of Hypertension, its Origin
By guiding a hypertensive patient through the initial phases of detection and education about his condition, you playa leading role in his plan of care. For the first step in this process, obtain the patient’s health history, which should include … Continue reading
What is Hypertension
Hypertension affects about 20% of adults and occurs increasingly with age. Typically, the disease is more common: among African-Americans than whites among less educated people of both races in lower socioeconomic groups in men from young adulthood to age 55 … Continue reading