Tag: Hypertension
Hypertension of pregnancy
Introduction:
Hypertension complicates about 8% of pregnancies in developed countries, significantly more in some areas. For a quarter of these young women, it is pre-eclampsia, the...
Pregnancy hypertension
Introduction:
Gravitational hypertension is a group of conditions whose nature and mechanisms remain imperfectly classified.
This situation affects 10 to 15% of pregnant women, which is...
Essential arterial hypertension
INTRODUCTION:
High blood pressure (HTA) is a particularly high frequency condition.
Its satellite is a major increase in cardiovascular risk, which should be remembered as the...
Hypertension
Warning:
• Hypertension is almost never a therapeutic emergency (true emergencies are left ventricular failure, hypertensive encephalopathy, aortic dissection, hypertensive retinopathy, eclampsia).
• Diagnosis is based...
Intracranial hypertension
- In a person at rest and supine intracranial pressure is normally 10 mmHg (10 cm H2O). It is equal to the hydrostatic pressure...
Hypertension (HT)
- The essential hypertension of an adult is defined as a blood pressure (BP) of greater than or equal to 160 mm Hg for...
High blood pressure (Hypertension)
High blood pressure (hypertension) affects approximately 25% of the world population and its prevalence is expected to increase by 60% by 2025, an estimated...
Plasma Aldosterone
Secreted by the adrenal cortex, aldosterone acts on the distal convoluted tube and causes reabsorption of sodium, potassium excretion and H + ions.
Its secretion...
Smoking
* The cancer increases by 10 the risk of lung cancer; beyond 30 PA risk is 50 times than in non-smoking
* This is the...
