Family Genetic History Form Your Name: Marie Madeus Date: 7/28/13 Your Instructor’s Name: Carreon Purpose: This assignment is to help you gain insight regarding the influence of genetics on an individual’s health and risk for disease. You are to obtain a family genetic history on a willing‚ non-related‚ adult participant. Disclaimer: When taking a family genetic history on an actual client‚ it is essential that the information is accurate. Please inform the person you are interviewing that
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Atenolol is a nationally known‚ commonly used medication that has helped to change the lives of many people in America. Atenolol‚ also known as Tenormin‚ is placed in a group of remedies known as beta-blocker. As a Beta-blocker‚ Atenolol is used to treat a range of bodily disorders in connection with anxiety and tension‚ such as high blood pressure‚ angina‚ irregular heart rhythms‚ migraines‚ prevention of a second heart attack‚ tremors‚ alcohol withdrawal‚ anxiety‚ and glaucoma. The three main
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complications can arise from damage to the microvascular (small blood vessels) system and present as neuropathy‚ retinopathy and nephropathy or damage to the macrovascular (large blood vessels) system and present as dyslipidaemia‚ atherosclerosis and hypertension. Nathan & Delhanty (2005‚ p.42) maintains that these complications may be present at the time of diabetes mellitus diagnosis and refer to diabetes as a ‘silent killer” as diabetes can go unnoticed until a major health event occurs. Diabetes
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Personal Impact Paper NUR/427 Patient with chronic disease Hypertension is a 44years old female that on a regular physical yearly check examination to see her Doctor discover that her blood pressure is high. Patient is a divorcee with two children and works as nurse assistance in a hospital‚ patient is not overweight‚ exercise‚ watch what she eats‚ a nonsmoker‚ nonalcoholic user. However‚ patient went through a very rough spousal abusive relationship
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strokes. Having high blood pressure (hypertension) is not usually something that you feel or notice. It does not tend to produce obvious signs or symptoms. The only way to know what your blood pressure is‚ is to have it measured. Blood pressure is measured in ‘millimeters of mercury’ (mmHg) and is written as two numbers. For example‚ if your reading is 120/80mmHg‚ your blood pressure is ‘120 over 80’. High blood pressure You probably have high blood pressure (hypertension) if your blood pressure readings
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resistance * Usually taken with beta blocker propanolol to balance reflex tachycardia and diuretic to decrease sodium retention. * Onset of action: 10-20 minutes * Duration of action: 12 hours INDICATION: * Treat moderate to severe hypertension VASODILATION: * Opens k+ channels and relaxes the smooth muscles of arterioles. * This leads to decrease in peripheral vascular resistances. * Decrease in arterial blood pressure. ADVERSE EFFECTS OF HYDRALAZINE * CNS:
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Stage 1 hypertension is with a systolic of 140–159 with diastolic between 90–99. Stage 2 hypertension when the systolic is ≥160 and the diastolic is ≥100. Objective six: Explain the relationship between Mrs. James’s hypertensive and her new onset of seizure. Her seizure could he been prompted by her electroconvulsive
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control. Hypertension is well-recognized as one of the leading risk factors for coronary heart diseases. (Roger Harms K. B.‚ June 29‚ 2012) There are around 970 million people worldwide who have high blood pressure; approximately 330 million from developed countries and 640 million from developing countries. (Kearney et al.‚ 2005) The number is expected to increase to 1.56 billion people by the year 2025; this translates to about 1 out of every 4 adults being afflicted with hypertension. (Ting Choon
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Introduction: High blood pressure or hypertension meaning high pressure (tension) in the arteries. Arteries are vessels that carry blood from the pumping heart to all the tissues and organs of the body. Normal Blood Pressure is below 120/80; blood pressure between 120/80 and 139/89 is consider pre-hypertension‚ and a blood pressure of 140/90 or above is considered high. The systolic blood pressure is the pressure in the arteries as the heart contracts and pumps blood forward into the arteries
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Chapter 39 Diuretics Open-Book Quiz‚ Chapter 39 1. Three uses of diuretics include treatment of hypertension‚ mobilization of edematous fluid‚ and used to prevent renal failure. 2. Aldosterone is the principal mineralocorticoid of the adrenal cortex; it stimulates reabsorption of sodium from the distal cortex. 3. Most diuretics share the same basic mechanism of action: they block sodium and chloride reabsorption. The greatest diuresis is produced by those drugs whose site of action
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