The nurse teaches a patient with hypertension that uncontrolled hypertension may damage organs in the body primarily by which mechanism?
- Hypertension promotes atherosclerosis and damage to the walls of the arteries.
- Hypertension causes direct pressure on organs, resulting in necrosis and replacement of cells with scar tissue.
- Hypertension causes thickening of the capillary membranes, leading to hypoxia of organ systems.
- Hypertension increases blood viscosity, which contributes to intravascular coagulation and tissue necrosis distal to occlusions.