[Solved]: You are seeing a 21 year old female patient that…

You are seeing a 21 year old female patient that you recently prescribed the oral contraceptive pill to. She is taking a mixed pill that has estrogen and progesterone in it to avoid pregnancy. She is coming in today with concern of elevated blood pressure with several at home readings, and she is reading 150/95 for her BP today in the office. You know that: Question 20 options: Oral contraceptives do not affect blood pressure, so there must be another cause of her elevated blood pressure. She admits to drinking energy drinks a couple of times a week so that must be the cause, it can’t be the oral contraceptives. Oral contraceptives may increase blood pressure, so you want to consider this as a potential cause of her hypertension.