📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage

This topic uses the AIM Learning Cycle to help MBBS students understand blood pressure, its neural and hormonal regulation, causes of high and low BP, and preventive and pharmacological control of hypertension by integrating Physiology, Pharmacology and Community Medicine.

🔹 Physiology

• Define blood pressure
• Describe the causes of high / low BP
• Discuss the mechanisms for rapid and long-term control of blood pressure including Renin-Angiotensin system
• Describe the effects of sympathetic and parasympathetic stimulation on the heart and circulation

🔹 Community Medicine

• Describe the preventive strategies of hypertension

🩺 Clinical Importance

• Correlate abnormal blood pressure regulation with hypertension, hypotension and cardiovascular risk