Question

select a pharmacologic treatment for one patient with hypertension and a nonpharmacologic treatment for another with hypertension. Describe exactly what each of those patients would look like (health (hx), age, weight, vitals) and defend why you chose your treatments.

Answer 1

Hypertension is a major public health trouble worldwide and its prevalence is quickly increasing among urban and rural populations.

Thus by reducing systolic and diastolic blood pressure we can decrease the risks of cardiovascular diseases by considering various pharmacological & non-pharmacological (lifestyle) measures.

In pharmacological treatments there are following measures:

• There are number of pharmaceutical agents, available for treatment of high blood pressure. Follollowing are the categories of of pharmacological agents used in treatment of blood pressure:
• β –blockers
• Calcium channel blockers
• Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors
• Thiazide diuretics etc.

In non-pharmacological treatments there are following measures:

• Lifestyle measures
• Dietary interventions (as reducing salt and avoiding alcohol etc).
• Weight reduction
• Tobacco cessation
• Physical exercise
• Stress management.

Patients those on the therapy whether pharmacological or non-pharmacological should be assessed for various indicators related to health, age, weight and other vitals.

There is need of prior study regarding the markers of health of patient.

Furthermore there are certain factors like age, weight and other physiological as well as pathological variables related to patients which have the very crucial impact on the treatment during the whole course of therapy.

Hence these factors should be taken into the consideration

Moreover the selection of the type of treatment varies patient to patient hence the concept of individualization of patient should be utilized

And on this basis the treatments should be employed on the patients.