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high blood pressure

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high blood pressure: see hypertension hypertension or high blood pressure, elevated blood pressure resulting from an increase in the amount of blood pumped by the heart or from increased resistance to the flow of blood through the small arterial blood vessels (arterioles).
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1% of the respondents know precisely the reference value to determine high blood pressure (135mmHg for systolic blood pressure and 85mmHg for diastolic blood pressure) in home blood pressure monitoring.
Roughly one in 20 women develops high blood pressure during pregnancy, a condition known as preeclampsia.
One in four adult Americans has high blood pressure.
 
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