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 risk factors, medical history, and any social characteristics that might influence his response to the disease or its treatment.Hypertension seems to be hereditary. If a patient’s parents have hypertension, he has twice the risk of developing it as someone whose parents don’t have it. When obtaining a hypertensive patient’s family history, ask about his parents, grandparents, siblings, and children. Record their ages and general states of health. If one of these family members is dead, find out the cause of death and the age at the time of death.
Note episodes of hypertension and coronary artery, cerebral, peripheral, or renal vascular disease among family members. If a family member has any of these diseases, the rest of the family has an increased risk of developing them.
Also, ask him if he knows of any complications that occurred during his fetal development.
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