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PTA Physical Therapy Assistant

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What is the action of beta blockers?
  1. Help your body eliminate sodium and water, reducing blood volume.
  2. Keep calcium from the muscle cells and constricting blood vessels
  3. Decrease nerve impulses to the heart and blood vessels.
  4. Keep the hormone from interacting with blood vessels.
Explanation
Answer: C - Decreasing nerve impulses to the heart and blood vessels is the action of beta blockers.

Many different types of medications are used to treat hypertension.

Beta blockers decrease the nerve impulses to the heart and blood vessels. Thiazide diuretics helpthe body to eliminate sodium and water, reducing blood volume.

Calcium channel blockerskeep calcium from the muscle cells and decrease the constricting of blood vessels.

Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors block the hormone that causes constriction from interacting with blood vessels.
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