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Hypertension - Coggle Diagram
Hypertension
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Patient Education
Encourage the patient to increase their physical activity. This can help naturally lower their blood pressure.
Encourage the patient to maintain a healthy weight. This can help lower the blood pressure the less excess weight a person has on their body.
Encourage the patient to find alternatives to smoking. Smoking is a great risk factor for a patient developing hypertension. Finding healthier alternatives can help decrease the risk of a patient developing hypertension or help them control their hypertension.
Encourage the patient to limit sodium intake. This can help naturally lower blood pressure by helping a patient not retain fluids which will lower the blood pressure.
Help the patient develop healthy stress relieving techniques. High levels of stress can lead to the blood pressure raising, so finding strategies to lower stress can help control blood pressure also.
Risk Factors
Smoking. The prolonged use of tobacco can damage the walls of the arteries and cause cause them to narrow after chronic use. Tobacco also temporarily raises the blood pressure shortly after ingestion/inhalation.
High Sodium Intake. A high sodium diet will cause a patient to retain water which will continually raise the blood pressure.
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Race. Hypertension is a condition that is very common in the African American race. This can mean that some African Americans are more at risk for developing this condition, and also at earlier ages that other races.
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Complications
Aneurysm. Chronic hypertension can lead to blood vessels becoming weak. Once these blood vessels weaken this can cause them to tear and create a bleed somewhere in the body.
MI. Chronic hypertension can increase a person's risk for developing a MI due to the narrowing of the arteries.
Dementia. Chronic narrowing of the arteries can lead to the brain not getting adequate perfusion which can lead to vascular dementia.
Vision Issues. Hypertension can also affect a person's vision. The vessels in the eye can become constricted due to the narrowing of the vessels which can lead to visionary deficits.
Stroke. Stroke is one very serious, potentially life threatening complication of chronically high blood pressure due to the thickening of the arteries.