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Outline what blood pressure is
Blood pressure is the pressure of the blood in the arteries as it is pumped around the body by the heart
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Is blood pressure constant?
It doesn't stay the same, but changes to meet your body's needs
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What factors can affect blood pressure?
Body position, breathing or emotional state, exercise and sleep.
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If blood pressure remains high, what types of serious problems can it lead to?
- Heart Attack
- Stroke
- Heart Failure
- Kidney Disease
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What is the meaning of the term systolic blood pressure?
- The pressure in the arteries as the heart squeezes out blood during each beat
- First number ( 120/80 )
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What is the meaning of the term diastolic blood pressure?
- The pressure as the heart relaxes before the next beat
- Lower number ( 120/80 )
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What are the different categories for blood pressure?
- Low- if the measurment drops 30mmHg below a patient's usual
- Normal- less than 120/80
- High- equal to, or more than, 140/90
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When should blood pressure be checked?
Regularly, if you have normal blood pressure but if you have high blood pressure you should have it checked more frequently. Check with doctor.
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What instrument is used to measure blood pressure?
A sphyg/mom/ano/meter
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What is hypertension?
The term for high blood pressure
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What factors can lead to high blood pressure?
- Hereditary
- Obesity
- Lack of exercise
- High salt diet
- Heavy drinking
- Kidney disease
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How can you lower blood pressure?
- In some cases, taking medication
- Healthier choices:
- Maintain healthy weight range
- High fibre, and low fat and salt diet
- Give up smoking
- Limit alcohol
- Exercise regularly
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What is hypotension?
The term for low blood pressure
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List the symptoms of low blood pressure
- Light headedness (when standing up)
- Unsteadiness and dizziness
- Weakness
- Blurred vision
- Fatigue
- Fainting
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Outline five of the many causes of low blood pressure
- Emotional stress, fear, insecurity or pain
- Blood donation
- Pregnancy
- Medications for depression
- Blood loss from trauma, such as an accident
- Allergic reaction to certain drugs or chemicals
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Define adulthood
- In Australia, adulthood is defined as 18 years onwards and is the final and longest stage in the lifespan,
- comprising 3 sub-stages (early, middle and late),
- and is a time of continuing physical, social, emotional and intellectual change.
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Identify a milestone during early adulthood for each category of health
- Physical: Body is at peak condition, growth has stopped and body is in maintenance phase
- Social: Establishing intimate realtionship, choosing a life partner
- Mental: Self identity changes as becoming a parent for the first time would be a new and different experience
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Identify a milestone during middle adulthood for each category of health
- Physical:
- Social:
- Mental: Change in self-identity as children leave home
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Identify a milestone during late adulthood for each category of health
- Physical: Deterioration of the body's ability to function, such as weaker bones, impaired vision
- Social: Change in housing arrangments, such as going into a nursing home cause aspects of social health to change
- Mental: brain and memory deteriorates, may suffer memory loss or dementia
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Define menopause
The time when a women's menstruation comes to an end and they are no longer able to reproduce.
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Define basal metabolic rate
The minimum amount of energy required by the body for survival when it is at rest
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What physical changes occur during menopause?
- - Significantly reduced hormone production - lower oestrogen
- -Change in fat distribution- more fat aruond thigs and buttocks
- -A reduction in the ability to strore calcium
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