high blood pressure
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- noun
- /haɪ blʌd ˈprɛʃər/
- Specialized
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hipertensión
- Black American kids already have higher blood pressure than white kids, you know.
- high blood pressure or hypertension
- patients with high blood pressure
- treated for high blood pressure
The next class of drugs for high blood pressure is the beta blockers.
- The next class of drugs for high blood pressure is the beta blockers.
- They're the ones that treat diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems.
- Black American kids already have higher blood pressure than white kids, you know.
- This is FDA approved for hypertension or high blood pressure and for congestive heart failure.
- It causes high blood pressure because it causes those small vessels to constrict.
- Research is very clear that saturated fat does not cause high blood pressure or hypertension.
- Why is it that fat around the belly particularly is linked with high blood pressure?
- It's used for high blood pressure, very fast heart rhythms, especially atrial fibrillation.
- These things are strongly associated with things like cancer, autoimmune disease, heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure, right?
- What should happen is they should say, we'll pay you for the amount of people that you can keep off of that high blood pressure register.
- Because it's variability in high blood pressure that matters as well.
- You know, chronically high blood pressure, smoking is a risk factor.
- When you have continued relentless unremitting high blood pressure, you got to think about.
Examples
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Regular check-ups are important for monitoring high blood pressure and reducing the risk of heart disease.
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Screening for and treatment of high blood pressure has the potential to significantly reduce cardiovascular-associated mortality.
Academic text (2016) -
So what is a high blood pressure home reading?
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My father had high blood pressure.
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By tomorrow his fast heart and high blood pressure may be gone.
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Hopefully, correct that, lose my weight, and lose my high blood pressure.
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So how does high blood pressure affect the brain and dementia risk?
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But most people underestimate how common high blood pressure is actually in women.
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She had a history of high blood pressure.
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Are you on any medication, including drugs for heart problems, high blood pressure, or asthma?
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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A long-term condition in which blood pressure stays too high and can damage the heart
How High
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning — elevated pressure of the blood — is directly and transparently derived from the constituents 'high' (above normal), 'blood' (the bodily fluid) and 'pressure' (force per area). This compositional medical noun follows straightforward semantic composition and has close equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the overall meaning.
Etymology
High blood pressure comes from the clear image of blood pushing hard against the walls of the blood vessels, like water under high pressure in a hose. The words high, blood, and pressure show this, so it means 'blood that presses too hard on the vessel walls' and can cause health problems.