A 40-year-old male newly diagnosed with hypertension is discussing risk factors with the nurse. The nurse talks about lifestyle changes with the patient and advises that the patient should avoid tobacco use
What is the primary rationale behind that advice to the patient?
A) Quitting smoking will cause the patient's hypertension to resolve.
B) Tobacco use increases the patient's concurrent risk of heart disease.
C) Tobacco use is associated with a sedentary lifestyle.
D) Tobacco use causes ventricular hypertrophy.
Ans: B
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Smoking increases the risk for heart disease, for which a patient with hypertension is already at an increased risk. Quitting will not necessarily cause hypertension to resolve and smoking does not directly cause ventricular hypertrophy. The association with a sedentary lifestyle is true, but this is not the main rationale for the nurse's advice; the association with heart disease is more salient.
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