Description
Prepare a presentation by selecting a Lifespan Development Theory that you can compare each stage to your own life.
Create an Adobe Sparks, Smore Newsletter, PowerPoint, or Word Document and include your name, class title, name of the assignment, & date at the beginning of the assignment.
Select ONE Lifespan Development Theory that was discussed in the Lesson this week. Explain each stage of your selected theory.
- List and compare each stage with your own life up to your present stage. Then name and describe stages that you have not encountered yet.
- Include physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development from prenatal through the last stage of life.
- Define sexual orientation & gender identity based on Week 4's Lesson (Hint: they are not synonymous concepts!). Describe how the development of gender identity occurs based on your selected theory and its impact on personality & sexuality.
Explanation & Answer
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Blood Pressure: Hypertension
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Types of Hypertension
• Affects upto 50 million people across U.S
• Types
• 1. Primary
• High blood pressure that is chronic and has no source
• Could be associated with any other diseases
• Is the most common form of hypertension (Buford,
2016).
• 2. Secondary
• Elevation of blood pressure as a result of a disease like
kidney disease
Diagnosis of Hypertention
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Genetic
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Family History
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Certain individuals are prone to the hypertension disease due to their genetic makeup
If there is a family history of hypertension then the risk of acquiring the same increases
Environment
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Use of tobacco
Alcohol
High Sodium Diets
Inactivity
Age
Obesity
Stress
Further Complications Associated with High Blood Pressure
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Increased heart workloads
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Thickening of an individual’s heart
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Could lead to conditions like
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Heart Attack
Renal failures
Stroke
Loss of vision (Kung & Xiu, 2015).
Who are considered at Risk?
• African Americans tend to be at higher risks of
hypertension and high blood pressures
• 40 percent of African Americans living in US could
develop hypertension compared to 27 percent of
the whites (Kung & Xiu, 2015).
• This is because:
• African Americans tend to respond differently to
medications for hypertension
• African Americans tend to have higher sensitivities
to salts. ½ teaspoon of salt could greatly increase
individual’s blood pressure
Signs and Symptoms
• Diagnosed through the repeat blood pressure
readings
• There are no symptoms for primary hypertensions
rather than increased high blood pressure (Buford,
2016).
• Secondary Hypertensions:
• Mainly caused by the Renal Disorders
• The symptoms include:
• Decrease in urine formation
• Decrease in sodium and water retentions
Treatment
• Step 1
• Lifestyle modifications
• Limiting the use of alcohol
• Reduction of stress factors
• Diet and doing exercise
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Step 2
Introduction of drug therapy if lifestyle changes are not enough
Step 3
Changing the drug dose if the previous steps fail to work
Introduction of another drug
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Adding other medications until the blood pressure is controlled
(Paulose-Ram et al.,2017)
Prevention
• Change the lifestyle
• Having some regular checkups with the
physicians
• Education:
• Being aware of individual’s blood pressure and
where it should lie
• Understanding the various personal risk factors
• Engaging in the matters of community health
awareness (Buford, 2016).
Living with High Blood Pressure
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