A 61-year-old Black male with a history of hypertension presents to your clinic for complaints of headaches and blurred vision x 4 days. He denies any weakness, numbness, chest pain, shortness of breath, palpitations, or recent, illicit drug use. He states he has been compliant with his medications (hydrochlorothiazide and metoprolol), and he took his meds this morning.
His V/S include: B/P 190/100, P- 90, T- 98.9, R- 22. Recent labs show that Total Cholesterol- 260, LDL-190, HDL- 35, Triglycerides- 320. He did not return for these results and did not start any new meds.
What are your diagnoses and include rationales with references:
1-Hypertension:
2-Hypercholesterolemia:
3-Hypertriglyceridemia:
Write plan of care for this patient?
What is the treatment pharmacologic (with references)
What is non-pharmacologic treatment/education/follow up.
