Adult and Geriatric Nurse Practitioner located in Miami, FL
Millions of people have hypertension or high blood pressure. However, many don’t know they have a serious health problem because hypertension causes no symptoms. Jolene Hodges, NP, at NP Services At Home in Miami, Florida, offers house calls and telehealth consultations to help you reduce your blood pressure. If you haven’t been for a blood pressure screening recently or need help managing hypertension, call NP Services At Home to arrange a nurse practitioner house call visit or telehealth appointment.
If you have hypertension, it means your blood pressure is too high. Blood pressure readings measure the force at which blood pumped by your heart pushes against your artery walls. Blood pressure that’s too high can damage blood vessels and lead to congestive heart failure, heart attacks, and strokes.
Despite being so potentially harmful, hypertension doesn’t cause any symptoms. Your blood pressure could increase to dangerous levels without you realizing it unless you suffer an emergency like a stroke or heart attack. For that reason, NP Services At Home’s Jolene Hodges routinely checks her patients’ blood pressure to identify any changes.
Measuring your blood pressure is noninvasive, fast, and causes minimal discomfort. Jolene wraps a blood pressure cuff around your arm and then inflates it. As the cuff tightens, you are aware of the pressure increasing around your arm. But it stops just before it becomes uncomfortable.
Jolene measures the blood pressure as your heart beats (systolic pressure) and between beats (diastolic pressure). Healthy blood pressure is around 120 systolic and 80 diastolic. The higher your readings are above this, the more serious your hypertension.
Primary hypertension has no specific cause. Secondary hypertension can develop if you have an underlying health problem such as diabetes, kidney disease, thyroid disorder, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), or adrenal gland tumor.
Your chances of having hypertension are higher if you have risk factors such as:
Illegal drugs like cocaine and some medications can also raise your blood pressure.
Adjusting your diet, losing weight, and addressing other risk factors for hypertension are often enough to lower your blood pressure to a normal range. Careful management of chronic conditions like diabetes is also important.
Jolene can help you with all these issues, from supporting you when you quit smoking and teaching you stress reduction techniques to providing nutritional advice and effective weight loss programs.
If your blood pressure remains high or you have advanced hypertension, you might also require medication. Many hypertension medicines help by relaxing the blood vessels. Some have other functions, like widening the arteries, so blood doesn’t have to pump as forcefully.
To benefit from expert hypertension care and screening, call NP Services At Home today or book a house call or telehealth consultation appointment online.
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