hypertension
noun
- elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure.
- an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
Origin of hypertension
Examples from the Web for hypertension
Contemporary Examples of hypertension
Some were elderly with underlying conditions like hypertension and diabetes.
Our current preventive routine focuses on treating such cardiac risk factors as hypertension and cholesterol.
Of course, we shouldn't go overboard: Oregon only looked at hypertension, cholesterol, and blood sugar.
By one estimate I've seen, hypertension control has cut the death rate from stroke in half, and from heart attacks by a third.
Study: Giving People Government Health Insurance May Not Make them Any HealthierMegan McArdle
May 1, 2013
The hardest part is to convince patients to keep taking the pills, because hypertension has no painful symptoms until oops!
Study: Giving People Government Health Insurance May Not Make them Any HealthierMegan McArdle
May 1, 2013
Historical Examples of hypertension
It is a state of the nervous system such as appears in hypertension.
Metapsychical PhenomenaJ. Maxwell
Goaded and overkeyed into a state of hypertension, it had retaliated with insensibility.
Satan SandersonHallie Erminie Rives
It is not intended to convey the impression that hypertension is of no moment.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension:Louis Marshall Warfield
His contention holds good for some cases, but not, in my experience, for the great majority of the hypertension cases.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension:Louis Marshall Warfield
Hypertension means high pressure, and yet it carries with it a suggestion of high pressure which is harmful to the individual.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension:Louis Marshall Warfield