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essential hypertension

American  

noun

Pathology.
  1. persistent high blood pressure of no known cause.


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This vast majority of the estimated 15 million U.S. cases they list under the misleading label of "essential hypertension."

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Katherine suffered from essential hypertension, persistent high blood pressure without known cause.

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Even in its commonest disease form, which doctors call "essential hypertension," damage to the kidneys and other organs is the result of changes in the small arteries, not of the high blood pressure.

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Nonetheless, researchers have discovered several factors that are almost surely involved in essential hypertension.

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And they showed that the hitherto unexplained form of high blood pressure known as "essential hypertension," which accounts for 95% of all cases, stems from the kidneys.

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