Sentence examples for hypertensive from inspiring English sources

* Two illnesses, essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease, appeared for the first time on the list of the top 10 causes of death, at No. 7. Deaths because of these illnesses increased by 10.5 percent since 2009 and by 30.3 percent since 2001.

Approximately five percent of all hypertensive patients have secondary hypertension, which is high blood pressure that results from a known cause (e.g., kidney disease).

Antihypertensive drugs have dramatically increased the life expectancy of patients with severe hypertension; stroke and kidney failure are now relatively uncommon in treated hypertensive patients.

Verdict: At the Laquintinie, one of the country's biggest hospitals, cardiologist Dr Daniel Lemogoum said that, in a recent survey, three in every five persons who uses the Cardiopad has been diagnosed as hypertensive, or at risk of heart diseases.

"These are people who would not necessarily have been aware they are hypertensive.

In the United States, for instance, nearly 30 percent of the adult population is hypertensive.

Lead author Barbara Hoffmann, professor of environmental epidemiology at at Heinrich-Heine-University of Dusseldorf, Germany, said: "Our findings show that long-term exposure to particulate air pollution is associated with a higher incidence of self-reported hypertension and with intake of anti-hypertensive medication.

In the early days his work was mainly concentrated on cardiovascular research, searching and isolating anti-hypertensive agents used to lower blood pressure.

"There are only a few real blockbuster drugs in cancer treatment, and a businessman can take a conservative approach and reap considerable revenues from developing another statin for high cholesterol, or another anti-hypertensive for elevated blood pressure.

Amid the mess, there was a lock-picking set, several packets of ginger tea, and a box of the anti-hypertensive and coronary-protective medicine Adalat LA.

Dr. Bruce Ovbiagele, lead author of the study and a professor of neurosciences at U.C.S.D., said this does not mean that people with prehypertension should start taking anti-hypertensive drugs.