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What is high blood pressure also called?
Abnormally high blood pressure is called "Hypertension" (Hyper-= above, over, or excess; Tension= to strain or stretch)In essence blood pressure is the force(stretch or strain) on the blood vessels' walls. Thus abnormally high blood pressure would be an excess strain on the vessels' walls.
Hypertension is the technical name for what?
That would be high blood pressure.
Essential hypertension is the result of an underlying pathologic condition in another body system?
Essential hypertension means there is no known causes. Secondary hypertension means there is some known cause of your elevated pressure. Treatment would gear toward whatever that cause. However, the majority of hypertension is essential.
A patient was admitted to the hospital with a heart attack and also hypertension both of which required monitoring during the inpatient stay the hypertension would be considered?
Comorbidity
What body parts does portal hypertension affect?
Portal hypertension is high blood pressure in the portal vein. The portal vein is a blood vessel that takes blood from the spleen to the liver. Therefore these are the parts of the body portal hypertension would affect.
How would you monitor someone taking medication for hypertension?
Hypertension is essentially high-blood-pressure. (HBP) The best way to monitor is to test their blood pressure about an hour after taking their medication and then later on during the day to make sure it is in normal range. It can be too low after taking their medication or too high if the medication isn't working right. People whose blood pressure is too high appear to be red in the face and neck region usually. Taking the right medications and eating a diet recommended by their doctor is the best way to control HBP.
What individuals would most likely be recommended an iron supplement?
An older female. usually kids, young adults and pregnant women do need Iron
What is the pressure of blood pumping through the blood vessels is constantly too high?
This would mean that the person has high blood pressure and the medical term for this is hypertension.
How would you describe preeclampsia-eclampsia hypertension?
In this type of hypertension, high blood pressure is first noted sometime after week 20 of pregnancy and is accompanied by protein in the urine and swelling.
What are the job requirements for being a black ops agent?
It would depend on the mission what the agent needed to be qualified for. People generally think of individuals trained and qualified and with proven abilities recruited for a mission. Location, availability, trustworthiness, and knowledge of the individuals character and performance could also be part of a selection criteria. Recruitment of individuals would be restricted to individuals recommended by respected colleagues
What happens if you give Viagra to a panda?
You would probably make the panda very sick - sildenafil was originally designed to treat pulmonary hypertension and is still used in this manner for domestic cats. I would be worried you would cause a thrombus or localized hypertension that could be fatal.
What illness would be indicated by weight loss and low sodium levels in the blood?
hypertension
