A nurse is planning the care of a woman who has been admitted to the medical unit following an ischemic cerebrovascular accident. What would the nurse recognize as the longest-acting phase of the woman's physiologic response to stress and its cause?
A) Sympathetic-adrenal-medullary response caused by persistent stress
B) Hypothalamic-pituitary response caused by acute stress
C) Sympathetic-adrenal-medullary response caused by acute stress
D) Hypothalamic-pituitary response caused by persistent stress
Ans: D
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The longest-acting phase of the physiologic response, which is more likely to occur in persistent stress, involves the hypothalamic-pituitary pathway, not the sympathetic-adrenal-medullary pathway.
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