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Hypertension (medicine)


hypertension
<cardiology> Persistently high arterial blood pressure. Hypertension may have no known cause (essential or idiopathic hypertension) or be associated with other primary diseases (secondary hypertension).

This condition is considered a risk factor for the development of heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, stroke and kidney disease.