Hypertension Word Scramble
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antihypertensive | to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with HTN |
Alpha 2 Agonists | Decrease sympathetic impulses from the CNS to the heart and arterioles, causing vasodilation |
Alpha 1 blockers | Inhibit sympathetic activation in arterioles, causing vasodilation, -sin |
Direct vasodilartors | act on the smooth muscle of arterioles, causing vasodilation |
Calcium channel blockers | block calcium ion channels in arterial smooth muscle, causing vasodilation, -pine |
angiotensin receptor blockers | prevent angiotensin receptors, causing vasodilation, -an |
ACE inhibitors | Block formation of angiotensin II, causing vasodilation, and block aldosterone secretion, decreasing fluid volume, -pril |
diuretics | increase urine output and decrease fluid volume |
beta blockers | decrease the heart rate and myocardial contractility, reducing cardiac output, -lol |
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