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The state also encouraged those doctors to direct hypertensive patients to community programs that encouraged healthy eating, exercise and smoking cessation.
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For a hypertensive obese patient, adding testosterone is like putting rocket fuel in a Pacer.
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First Known Use of hypertensive
1904
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hypertensive
noun
hy·per·ten·sive
Definition of hypertensive
: an individual affected with hypertension
First Known Use of hypertensive
1939
Medical Dictionary
adjective
hy·per·ten·sive
\ˌhī-pər-ˈten(t)-siv\
Medical Definition of hypertensive
: marked by or due to hypertension hypertensive emergencies hypertensive renal disease; also : affected with hypertension a hypertensive patient
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hypertensive
noun
hy·per·ten·sive
Medical Definition of hypertensive
: one affected with hypertension
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