{"id":11734,"date":"2022-11-06T14:07:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T11:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pharmacy.uokerbala.edu.iq\/wp\/en\/?p=11734"},"modified":"2022-11-06T14:07:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T11:07:19","slug":"diagnosis-and-tests-for-hypertension-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pharmacy.uokerbala.edu.iq\/wp\/en\/blog\/2022\/11\/06\/diagnosis-and-tests-for-hypertension-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosis and tests for hypertension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Diagnosis of high blood pressure is made by measuring it, over a number of clinic visits, via a sphygmomamometer &#8211; the familiar upper-arm cuff device. An isolated high reading is not taken &#8211; rather, diagnosis can be made after measurement on at least three separate days.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Measurements at the doctor&#8217;s office may be both while seated and after standing, to look for orthostatic or postural hypotension.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reliability of blood pressure readings may be improved by taking a series of measurements outside the doctor&#8217;s office, by doing self-measurement at home with standardized devices.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We have more detailed information about measuring blood pressure.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doctors take a history (ask questions, such as about cardiovascular problems) and do a physical examination in addition to classifying high blood pressure using sphygmomanometry.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other tests also help to identify the cause and determine whether there have been any complications &#8211; these may include urine tests, kidney ultrasound imaging, blood tests, ECG and possibly echocardiography.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><u>Reference: Medical News Today, 2015.<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diagnosis of high blood pressure is made by measuring it, over a number of clinic visits, via a sphygmomamometer &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharmacy.uokerbala.edu.iq\/wp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharmacy.uokerbala.edu.iq\/wp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharmacy.uokerbala.edu.iq\/wp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharmacy.uokerbala.edu.iq\/wp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharmacy.uokerbala.edu.iq\/wp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pharmacy.uokerbala.edu.iq\/wp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11735,"href":"https:\/\/pharmacy.uokerbala.edu.iq\/wp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions\/11735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharmacy.uokerbala.edu.iq\/wp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharmacy.uokerbala.edu.iq\/wp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharmacy.uokerbala.edu.iq\/wp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}