Ms.Smith has chronic high blood pressure from an unknown cause.The nurse practitioner will document this condition as:

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Chronic high blood pressure with an unknown cause is most commonly referred to as primary hypertension. Malignant hypertension is a severe and rapid onset of high blood pressure with potentially life-threatening complications, and coarctation of the aorta is a congenital narrowing of the aorta. Idiopathic cardiomyopathy involves dysfunction of the heart muscle, and cardiogenic shock is a potentially fatal condition where the heart cannot pump enough blood to sustain the body's needs. These conditions are not appropriate descriptors for chronic high blood pressure from an unknown cause.

MsSmith Has Chronic High Blood Pressure from an Unknown Cause