HTN 2 Flashcards
What is typically first line management of HTN?
- Weight loss
- Healthy diet (DASH diet)
- Reduced intake of dietary sodium
- Enhanced intake of dietary potassium
- Physical activity
- Moderation in alcohol intake
What are the 6 different antihypertensive groups?
- RAAS
- ACE
- ARB
- Sympathetic Antagonists/Agonists
- Beta Blockers
- Alpha 1 Blockers
- Central alpha agonists (Alpha 2 Agonists)
- Calcium Channel Blockers
- Diuretics (thiazide)
- Aldosterone antagonists
- Direct vasodilators
What do agents that block production or action of angiotensin do?
Reduce peripheral vascular resistance and (potentially) blood volume
What do sympatholytic (sympathoplegic) agents do?
Lower BP by reducing PVR by inhibiting cardiac function
increasing venous pooling in capacitance vessels.
- The latter two effects reduce cardiac output
What do calcium channel blockers do?
Inhibits calcium influx leading to coronary and peripheral vasodilation
What do diuretics do in regards to lowering blood pressure?
Lower blood pressure by depleting the body of sodium and reducing blood volume and perhaps by other mechanisms.
What do aldosterone antagonists do?
Inhibits aldosterone resulting in inhibition of sodium and water retention and inhibiting vasoconstriction
What do Direct vasodilators do?
Reduce pressure by relaxing vascular smooth muscle thus dilating resistance vessels and increasing capacitance to varying degrees
Oral antihypertensives–> What are the primary agents?
- Thiazides (Chlorthalidone, Hydrocholorthiazide, Indapamide, Metolazone)
- ACE inhibitors (Benazepril, Captopril, etc)
- ARBS (Azilsartan, Candesartan, Eprosartan, Irbesartan, Losartan)
- CCB- Dihydropyridines (Amlodipine, Felodipine, Isradipine, Nicardipine, Nifedipine, etc)
- CCB- nondihydropyridines (Diltiazem, Verapamil)
The following are oral antihypertensive drugs that are _____Agents (primary or secondary?)
- Diuretics- Loop (Bumetanide, Furosemide, Torsemide)
- Diuretics- Potassium sparing (Amiloride, Triamterone)
- Diuretics- Aldosterone antagonists (Eplerenone, Spironolactone)
- Beta Blockers- Cardioselective (Atenolol, Betaxolol, Bisoprolol, Metoprolol,etc)–> POST-MI
5. Beta blockers- Cardioselective and vasodilatory (Nebivolol)
- Beta blockers- noncardioselective (Nadolol, Propanolol)
- Beta Blockers- Intrinsic Sympathomimetic activity (Acebutolol, Penbutolol, Pindolol)
- Combined alpha and beta Beta blockers
- DRI
- Alpha Blockers
- Central alpha agonists
- Direct vasodilators (Hydralizine, Minoxidil)
Secondary
Overview of the site of action of diuretics
RAAS sites of action of antihypertensive drugs
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Which part of the nephron is:
- the major site for sodium chloride and sodium bicarbonate reabsorption
- Responsible for 60–70% of the total reabsorption of sodium.
Proximal Convoluted Tubule (PCT)
•Conversion of bicarbonate to carbon dioxide via _______permits rapid reabsorption of the carbon dioxide in the PCT of the nephron
Carbonic acid
What is a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor and what is its clinical appications?
Acetazolamide
Clinical applications= Glaucoma, Mountain sickness, edema w/ alkalosis
The following describes the pharmacokinetics of which inhibitor?
Oral, parenteral
Diuresis is self-limiting
Effects in glaucoma and mountain sickness persist
Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (Acetazolamide)