Synonyms for high blood pressure
high blood pres·sure

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1. high blood pressure, hypertensionnoun

   a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater)

   Synonyms:
   hypertension

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1. • Cardiovascular Disease

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1. high blood pressure

   Synonyms:
   Hypertension, see there
   

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1. Butthe Washington Post:

   Ive shared myself personally that I have high blood pressure, that I have heart disease and spent a week in the [intensive care unit] due to a heart condition, that I actually have asthma and Im prediabetic, and so I represent that legacy of growing up poor and black in America.

2. Maria Carolina Delgado-Lelievre:

   High blood pressure is not [ just ] a number. The number is a guide, it's a symbol, it's telling us your vessels all over the body are not working as they should.

3. Patrick Wanis:

   We’ve known for years that stress creates fatigue, aches, pains, insomnia, anxiety and [it can affect] the gastrointestinal tract with ulcers, IBS, and the endocrine system, as well as your thyroid. We know that stress leads to high blood pressure, heart attacks, stroke, and more.

4. Benjamin Sommers:

   With the expanded coverage, you're not going to diagnose more broken bones because whether or not they have insurance, when somebody breaks a leg they are going to get an x-ray, these findings with diabetes may be the tip of the iceberg, and you can imagine similar outcomes for earlier detection of high blood pressure, or cancer, or mental illness.

5. Susan Kelly:

   In addition, overeating or consuming a lot of calories in a shorter period is linked with an increased risk of memory-related problems and overall cognitive impairment, overeating causes obesity that contributes to diabetes, high blood pressure and heart diseases, which are believed to be further causing Alzheimer’s and other brain illnesses.