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Exercise Stress Test Risk Assessment by Dian Paramita is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This patient is a 55-year-old female being counseled on her risk factors for hypertension. The document discusses several true risk factors, including increasing body mass index, cigarette smoking, and sodium intake. However, it notes that the statement about Mexican Americans having similar prevalences of hypertension as African Americans is false - Mexican Americans actually have prevalences similar to whites. The principal complications of hypertension are also discussed, except for hypothyroidism.
- Author
- Dian Paramita
- Language
- EN