Studying High Blood Pressure

Studying High Blood Pressure

"Blood pressure check" by Army Medicine is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Hello and welcome to my final action project for my Cure class. In this unit, the main focus was talking about preventive care. When talking about preventive care, the main goal is to treat symptoms that you might have before getting a specific disease. We got to talk to Chris Riley, who is a doctor at a cancer study. We spoke to Dr Karen Johnson as well; she is a doctor who practices…as well as Dr. Karen Johnson, who is a doctor that practices using Eastern medicine. Both of them gave us a lot of information about how to prevent getting diseases like cancer, diabetes, and how some minorities have better chances of getting those diseases compared to others. We also got to go to mindworks which is an interactive center where you can do your own studies and scientists look at them to make specific changes. Leading up to this final action project, we were assigned to create a case summary for a patient and create recommendations for their preventative care.


Here’s my case study below:

I thought that this Action Project was pretty fun to work through. I thought it was interesting to learn about Nooks’s family history and see how medical professionals might improve their standings. Even so, I did think it was difficult to get all the information down on a time crunch. If I were to do this project again, I might want to look into a different disease and try to prevent that. 

Sources:

Health threats from high blood pressure. www.heart.org. (2022, March 4). Retrieved June 1, 2022, from https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/high-blood-pressure/health-threats-from-high-blood-pressure 

Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. (2021, July 1). High blood pressure (hypertension). Mayo Clinic. Retrieved June 2, 2022, from https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pressure/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20373417 

WebMD. (n.d.). Benazepril Oral: Uses, side effects, interactions, pictures, warnings & dosing. WebMD. Retrieved June 2, 2022, from https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-4682/benazepril-oral/details