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HCR 240 Exam 3 Questions and Answers (latest Update 2024)
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HCR 240 Exam 3 Questions and Answers(latest Update 2024)
Triad of Virchow - Correct Answer ✅Venous stasis
Venous endothelial damage
Hypercoagulable states
What are the 3 factors that are critically important in the
development of venous thrombosis called? - Correct
Answer ✅Triad of Virchow
orthostatic hypotension - Correct Answer ✅Low blood
pressure that occurs upon standing up
Isolated systolic hypertension - Correct Answer
✅Elevated systolic blood pressure accompanied by
normal diastolic blood pressure
primary hypertension - Correct Answer ✅High blood
pressure, the cause of which is unknown but thought to
maybe be genetic or environmental; also known as
essential hypertension
,HCR 240 Exam 3 Questions and Answers
(latest Update 2024)
Secondary hypertension - Correct Answer ✅Is caused
by systemic disease that raises peripheral vascular
resistance and/or cardiac output
Systolic hypertension - Correct Answer ✅Most
significant factor in causing target organ damage
Non-modifiable risk factors of hypertension - Correct
Answer ✅Age, gender, family history
Modifiable risk factors of hypertension - Correct Answer
✅-↑Sodium (Na+) intake
-Glucose intolerance (diabetes -mellitus)/insulin
resistance
-Heavy alcohol use
-Obesity
-Cigarettes
-↓Potassium (K+), magnesium (Mg++), calcium (Ca++)
,HCR 240 Exam 3 Questions and Answers
(latest Update 2024)
Hypertension - Correct Answer ✅Caused by increases
in cardiac output or total peripheral resistance, or both
Any condition that increases heart rate or stroke volume?
- Correct Answer ✅Cardiac output
Effects of primary hypertension - Correct Answer ✅-
Overactivity of the sympathetic nervous system and
renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS), and
alterations in natriuretic peptides
-Inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, obesity-related
hormones, and insulin resistance
Complicated hypertension - Correct Answer
✅Hypertrophy and hyperplasia with associated fibrosis of
the tunica intima and media in a process called vascular
remodeling
, HCR 240 Exam 3 Questions and Answers
(latest Update 2024)
Malignant hypertension (hypertensive crisis) - Correct
Answer ✅-Rapidly progressive hypertension
-Diastolic pressure is usually >140 mmHg
-Can lead to encephalopathy
Clinical manifestations of hypertension - Correct Answer
✅-Early stages of hypertension have no clinical
manifestations other than elevated blood pressure.
-Called the silent disease
Treatment of hypertension - Correct Answer ✅-
Reducing or eliminating risk factors
-Dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH)
-Cessation of smoking
-Exercise program that promotes endurance and
relaxation
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