Understanding Hypertension: A Comprehensive Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the inbred villagers of Stoccareddo in Italy are a medical phenomenon, with unusually low frequencies of hypertension, strokes and heart attacks despite a high-cholesterol diet.

through extensive studying of the pathophysiology of hypertension, it was discovered that hypertension can be caused by genetic inheritance.

untreated persistent hypertension can lead to serious complications, such as dementia, strokes, renal failure and heart disease (left ventricular hypertrophy pictured).

a 2009 study found that Polycap—a five-in-one polypill combining three high blood pressure medications, a cholesterol reducer and aspirin—could cut heart attack and stroke risk in half for many.

Kalanchoe pinnata (pictured), a succulent plant native to Madagascar, has been recorded in Trinidad and Tobago as being used as a traditional treatment for high blood pressure.

Cialis, the erectile dysfunction drug developed by Icos, was originally researched in the hopes of a treatment for cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and angina.

metolazone is a medicine used to treat congestive heart failure and hypertension.

95% of cases of hypertension are of the essential hypertension type, and that essential hypertension has many established risk factors.

Understanding Hypertension: A Comprehensive Quiz

1 Home monitoring of blood pressure can also assist in the diagnosis of ________.

2 It is also known that hypertension is highly heritable and polygenic (caused by more than one gene) and a few candidate ________ have been postulated in the etiology of this condition.

3 [21] While in children hypertension may cause headache, fatigue, blurred vision, epistaxis, and ________.

4 A widely quoted and important series of such studies is the Framingham Heart Study carried out in an American town: ________.

5 Blood pressure is markedly elevated, and angina or ________ may occur.

6 For the secondary hypertension its known that primary aldosteronism is the most frequent ________ form of secondary hypertension.

7 spironolactone or ________), an alpha-blocker or a beta-blocker.

8 There are many classes of medications for treating hypertension, together called ________, which — by varying means — act by lowering blood pressure.

9 Nonetheless, the achievement of blood pressure goals is possible, and, most importantly, lowering blood pressure significantly reduces cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, as proved in ________[citation needed].

10 [50][51] An elevation of ________, an enzyme secreted by the kidney, is another risk factor,[30][52] as is sympathetic nervous system overactivity.

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