When the Nurse Is Developing a Teaching Plan to Prevent

When the nurse is developing a teaching plan to prevent the development of heart failure in a patient with stage 1 hypertension, the information that is most likely to improve compliance with antihypertensive therapy is that

A) hypertensive crisis may lead to development of acute heart failure in some patients.
B) hypertension eventually will lead to heart failure by overworking the heart muscle.
C) high BP increases risk for rheumatic heart disease.
D) high systemic pressure precipitates papillary muscle rupture.

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