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    This document discusses antihypertensive agents and hypertension. It covers factors that can cause hypertension like age, race, and lifestyle. If untreated, hypertension can damage the kidneys, heart, and brain. It discusses the etiology of hypertension including primary/essential hypertension and secondary causes. It also covers how blood pressure is regulated through mechanisms like the baroreflex and autonomic nervous system. Finally, it categorizes antihypertensive agents according to how they act - diuretics reduce sodium and blood volume, sympathoplegic agents reduce peripheral resistance, and direct vasodilators relax blood vessels.

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    This document discusses antihypertensive agents and hypertension. It covers factors that can cause hypertension like age, race, and lifestyle. If untreated, hypertension can damage the kidneys, heart, and brain. It discusses the etiology of hypertension including primary/essential hypertension and secondary causes. It also covers how blood pressure is regulated through mechanisms like the baroreflex and autonomic nervous system. Finally, it categorizes antihypertensive agents according to how they act - diuretics reduce sodium and blood volume, sympathoplegic agents reduce peripheral resistance, and direct vasodilators relax blood vessels.

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    Antihypertensive Agents My Report

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    Michael Villavert
    This document discusses antihypertensive agents and hypertension. It covers factors that can cause hypertension like age, race, and lifestyle. If untreated, hypertension can damage the kidneys, heart, and brain. It discusses the etiology of hypertension including primary/essential hypertension and secondary causes. It also covers how blood pressure is regulated through mechanisms like the baroreflex and autonomic nervous system. Finally, it categorizes antihypertensive agents according to how they act - diuretics reduce sodium and blood volume, sympathoplegic agents reduce peripheral resistance, and direct vasodilators relax blood vessels.

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    ANTIHYPERTENSIVE

    AGENTS
    Michael L. Villavert
    MD 17th Batch

    Factors

    Age
    Race
    Genetics
    Education
    Environment
    Stress
    (psychological)
    - LIFESTYLE
    -

    Damage in:

    Hypertension
    -

    Renal failure
    Coronary disease
    Cardiac failure
    Stroke

    - Kidney
    - Heart
    - Brain

    Etiology
    Primary

    / Essential Hypertension
    Secondary Hypertension
    Renal

    artery constriction

    COA
    Pheochromocytoma
    Cushings
    Primary

    disease

    aldosteronism

    BP Regulation

    BP = CO X PVR

    BP Regulation

    Baroreflexes
    ANS

    According to the principal regulatory


    site or mechanism on which they act
    Diuretics
    Depleting

    the body of sodium and reducing blood

    volume
    Sympathoplegic
    Reducing
    Inhibits

    agents

    peripheral vascular resistance

    cardiac function

    Increasing

    venous pooling in capacitance vessels

    According to the principal regulatory


    site or mechanism on which they act
    Direct

    vasodilators

    Relaxing vascular smooth muscle; thus dilating resistance


    vessels

    Agents that block production or action of angiotensin

    Reduce peripheral vascular resistance and (potentially)


    blood volume

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