hypertensive urgency is the term used to describe a blood pressure of 90 mm hg systolic and 50 mm hg diasto.
hypertensive urgency is the term used to describe a blood pressure of 90 mm hg systolic and 50 mm hg diasto.
which term is used to describe a blood pressure of 90 mm hg systolic and 50 mm hg diastolic?
hypertensive urgency
orthostatic hypotension, also known as postural hypotension, is a serious medical condition wherein a person's blood pressure falls when standing or sitting. the drop in blood pressure may be sudden (vasovagal orthostatic hypotension), within 3 minutes (classic orthostatic hypotension) or gradual (delayed orthostatic hypotension). it is defined as a fall in systolic blood pressure of at least 20 mm hg or diastolic blood pressure of at least 10 mm hg when a person assumes a standing position. it occurs predominantly by delayed (or absent) constriction of the lower body blood vessels, which is normally required to maintain an adequate blood pressure when changing position to standing. as a result, blood pools in the blood vessels of the legs for a longer period and less is returned to the heart, thereby leading to a reduced cardiac output and inadequate blood flow to the brain.
orthostatic hypotension
the dash trial showed that dietary patterns can and do affect blood pressure in the high normal bp to moderately hypertensive adult population (systolic  180 mm hg & diastolic of 80 to 95 mm hg). respectively, the dash or “combination” diet lowered blood pressures by an average of 5.5 and 3.0 mm hg for systolic and diastolic, compared with the control diet. the minority portion of the study sample and the hypertensive portion both showed the largest reductions in blood pressure from the combination diet against the control diet. the hypertensive subjects experienced a drop of 11.4 mm hg in their systolic and 5.5 mm hg in their diastolic phases. the fruits-and-vegetables diet was also successful, although it produced more modest reductions compared with the control diet (2.8 mm hg systolic and 1.1 mm hg diastolic). in the subjects with and without hypertension, the combination diet effectively reduced blood pressure more than the fruits-and-vegetables diet or the control diet did. the data indicated that reductions in blood pressure occurred within two weeks of subjects’ starting their designated diets, and that the results were generalizable to the target sample of the u.s. population. side effects were negligible, but the nejm study reports that some subjects reported constipation as a problem. at the end of the intervention phase, 10.1, 5.4 & 4.0 percent of the subjects reported this problem for the control, fruits-and-vegetables and combination diets, respectively, showing that the fruits and vegetables and combination diets reduce constipation. apart from only one subject (on the control diet) who was suffering from cholecystitis, other gastrointestinal symptoms had a low rate of incidence.
dash diet