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Cardiovascular Diseases > Vascular Diseases > Hypertension

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Hypertension  

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Entry terms

  • Blood Pressure, High
  • Blood Pressures, High
  • High Blood Pressure
  • High Blood Pressures

Note

  • not for intracranial or intraocular pressure; relation to BLOOD PRESSURE: Manual 23.27; Goldblatt kidney is HYPERTENSION, GOLDBLATT see HYPERTENSION, RENOVASCULAR; hypertension with kidney disease is probably HYPERTENSION, RENAL, not HYPERTENSION; venous hypertension: index under VENOUS PRESSURE (IM) & do not coordinate with HYPERTENSION; PREHYPERTENSION is also available

Scope note

  • Persistently high systemic arterial BLOOD PRESSURE. Based on multiple readings (BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION), hypertension is currently defined as when SYSTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently greater than 140 mm Hg or when DIASTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently 90 mm Hg or more.

In other languages

  • verenpainetauti

    Finnish

  • HA
  • HTA
  • hypertensio
  • hypertensio arterialis
  • hypertonia
  • hypertonia arterialis
  • hypertonisjukdomar (högt blodtryck och därmed sammanhängande sjukdomar)
  • kohonnut verenpaine
  • korkea verenpaine
  • morbi hypertensivi
  • RR-tauti
  • verenpainesairaudet
  • Högt blodtryck

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006973

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