A patient has hypertension and reports no symptoms. To encourage medication compliance, the nurse cautions the patient that uncontrolled hypertension can lead to sudden alterations in health, such as:
1. stroke.
2. blindness.
3. renal failure.
4. epistaxis.
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Long-term uncontrolled hypertension can damage vessels. The most common abrupt health alteration is stroke. Blindness and renal failure do not occur suddenly. Epistaxis is not a health alteration.
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