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Essential (primary) hypertension

A blood pressure of 140/90 or higher. High blood pressure usually has no symptoms. It can harm the arteries and cause an increase in the risk of stroke, heart attack, kidney failure, and blindness.

A disorder characterized by a pathological increase in blood pressure; a repeatedly elevation in the blood pressure exceeding 140 over 90 mm hg.

Blood pressure is the force of your blood pushing against the walls of your arteries. Each time your heart beats, it pumps out blood into the arteries. Your blood pressure is highest when your heart beats, pumping the blood. This is called systolic pressure. When your heart is at rest, between beats, your blood pressure falls. This is the diastolic pressure. Your blood pressure reading uses these two numbers, the systolic and diastolic pressures. Usually they are written one above or before the other. A reading of

Hypertension occurring without preexisting renal disease or known organic cause.

Pathological increase in blood pressure; a repeatedly elevated blood pressure exceeding 140 over 90 mmhg.

Persistently high systemic arterial blood pressure. Based on multiple readings blood pressure determination), hypertension is currently defined as when systolic pressure is consistently greater than 140 mm hg or when diastolic pressure is consistently 90 mm hg or more.

pre-existing hypertension with pre-existing proteinuria complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium