The nurse is teaching a patient about antihypertensive therapy. Which statement by the patient indicates the need for more teaching?
a. "Now that my blood pressure is normal, I won't need to take my medication an-ymore."
b. "When I take my blood pressure at home, I always try to take it at just about the same time every day."
c. "I check the labels on cans and other food packages to be sure they do not have too much sodium."
d. "I hope that by continuing to lose weight, I might not have to take medications to manage my high blood pressure."
A
Antihypertensive drugs do not cure high blood pressure, they only control it. The patient must continue to take the drug to keep blood pressure at target levels unless the factors that are in-creasing the blood pressure are changed or eliminated. For example, sometimes blood pressure becomes normal again when the person is no longer overweight. In addition, if another drug is causing the hypertension, like corticosteroids, and the patient no longer needs to take that drug, blood pressure can become normal again.
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