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Clinical manifestations, Diagnostic examination and Management of Hypertension

Clinical manifestations of Hypertension Elevation of blood pressure is sometimes the only symptom. If so, new symptoms appear after complications in the kidneys, eyes, brain or heart. Other symptoms that are often found are headache, epitaksis, angry, buzzing ears, heaviness in the neck, difficulty sleeping, eyes dazed and dizzy. Diagnostic examination of Hypertension a. Hemoglobin / Hematocrit: Not diagnostic but examine the relationship of cells to the volume of fluid and can indicate risk factors such as hypercoagulability, anemia. b. Glucose: Hyperglycemia (DM is the precipitating factors of hypertension) may be caused by increased levels of ketokolamin (increased hypertension). c. Calcium serum: Increased levels of calcium may increase hypertension. d. VMA urine (metabolites ketokolamin): The increase may indicate the presence of phaeochromocytoma (cause); 24-hour urinary VMA can be done to assess if hypertension intermittent phaeochromocytoma. e. Uric acid: implications...