Definition of hypertensive
: affected with or caused by hypertension
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If blood pressure reaches 180/120 or higher — and either number in the blood pressure reading counts — people will be classified as in hypertensive crisis with need for immediate treatment or hospitalization.
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People who drank more had a higher risk of stroke, heart failure, fatal hypertensive disease and fatal aortic aneurysm, where your artery or vein swells up and could burst.
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But alcohol consumption, even at that allegedly moderate level, is also associated with a suite of cardiovascular problems, including stroke, aortic aneurysm, fatal hypertensive disease and heart failure.
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The researchers examined alcohol's impact on causes of death related to cardiovascular disease, which includes stroke, heart failure, fatal hypertensive disease and fatal aortic aneurysm.
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High blood pressure can cause hypertensive retinopathy and high blood sugar can cause diabetic retinopathy.
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An autopsy completed the next day preliminarily ruled the manner of death as homicide and the cause of death as multiple traumas that complicated her hypertensive cardiovascular disease.
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The cause was hypertensive cardiovascular disease, said Angel Abreu, a senior member of K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), as Mr. Rollins’s original collaborators named themselves.
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But women who were hypertensive at an average age of 44 had a 68 percent higher risk for dementia than those who had normal blood pressure at that age, even after adjusting for B.M.I., smoking and other risk factors.
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First Known Use of hypertensive
1904
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Antihistamines, anti-depressants, anti-hypertensives, and even oral contraceptives can lead to tear film deficiencies as well.
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First Known Use of hypertensive
1939
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of hypertensive
: marked by or due to hypertension
- hypertensive emergencies
- hypertensive renal disease
- a hypertensive patient
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