Your new patient is a 38-year-old woman whose health history…
Your new patient is a 38-year-old woman whose health history shows that she is asthmatic, HIV positive, smokes hookah socially (between 1 and 3 days a week), has high blood pressure, and reports that all of her conditions are controlled with medications. She lists 5 medications that she takes that you look up to match with her conditions. Her last dental visit was approximately two years ago to have a tooth removed on an emergency basis, and she says she remembers them taking X-rays at that appointment. Her vitals today are BP 129/70, Pulse 54, Respiration 20. Use this information to answer the following questions. QUESTION: This patient’s blood pressure can be best described as what?