Synonyms for hypertension
ˌhaɪ pərˈtɛn ʃənhy·per·ten·sion

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1. hypertensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   hypotension

2. hypertensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   hypotension

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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:
   high blood pressure

   Antonyms:
   hypotension

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1. List of paraphrases for "hypertension":

   hypertensive

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1. Tracey Weissgerber:

   Hypertension in pregnancy is an opportunity to identify these women early.

2. Karin Johnson:

   Typical post-stroke workup involves testing for many risk factors including carotid atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation, hypercoagulable states, hypertension, high cholesterol, and diabetes among others, obstructive sleep apnea not only worsens all of these conditions but even with adjusting for other causes doubles the risk of stroke.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   Then there's the other thing that is really the chronic and decades-old dilemma of the social determinants of health, which is why African Americans have a higher degree of diabetes, of hypertension, of obesity, of heart disease, of chronic lung disease, of kidney disease, that does not need to be. But to get corrected, you have to make a decades-long commitment to change that.

4. Hiroyasu Iso:

   We were surprised about the strength of the effect of television watching compared with the effects of advancing age, history of hypertension and diabetes mellitus, or body mass index in this study, we speculated that leg immobility during television watching had increased their risk of fatal pulmonary embolism.

5. Aayush Visaria:

   These results indicate that women 70 years and older and men less than 50 years with hypertension may have increased risk of uncontrolled hypertension and may benefit from more frequent blood pressure monitoring.