Sentence examples for hypertension from inspiring English sources
The word "hypertension" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a medical condition characterized by abnormally high blood pressure. For example, "My father was diagnosed with hypertension a few years ago."
noun
The disease or disorder of abnormally high blood pressure.
By framing TB and HIV screening within a battery of other healthy living tests, including pregnancy, diabetes and hypertension, people are encouraged to get tested for the diseases.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) study said the primary risk was from high caffeine levels, which can cause problems such as palpitations, hypertension, vomiting, convulsions and in extreme cases heart failure leading to death.
In the wealthier west, CKD is largely caused by hypertension or diabetes, but most of the victims here have neither.
From its early days purifying cocaine for anaesthesia, the firm's scientists have churned out billion-dollar treatments for everything from high cholesterol to hypertension.
"The same way we had HIV killing people," Dr Machogu says, "we now have hypertension and cancer".Treatment often depends on the whim of pharmaceutical firms' philanthropic programmes.
Those who see salt as a problem believe that the effect on blood pressure is more lasting, and that if too much salt is ingested over a long period of time it will cause hypertension and perhaps death.
Given the amount of hypertension seen in modern humanity, knowing the answer to that is really rather important.
Alan Taylor, Asia president for Pfizer, says that China is rising up the agenda of big drug firms; sales of Pfizer's cholesterol-lowering and anti-hypertension medicines are growing rapidly there.
The trials showed not only that the electrical disturbances induced by Posicor did not cause arrhythmia, but that several other, widely used anti-hypertension drugs, which are known not to cause arrhythmia, also induce the electrical changes in question.
Hypertension chronic, abnormally raised blood pressure causes heart attacks, strokes and a multitude of other nasty conditions.
The researchers will publish the work next month in Hypertension.In this section Firing new shots Raising possibilities A wriggly question Serenity and the farm ReprintsPreviously, experts thought that high blood pressure was caused by the kidneys.
