Incorrect Answer

Q5. What should be the next course of action?
Your Answer: Continue the current regimen

Continuing the current antihypertensive regimen when the patient has not reached the recommended treatment goal of the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC-7) is not appropriate. Leaving her BP uncontrolled would increase her risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, and renal failure.

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