Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or characterized by hypertension.
- adj. Causing an increase in blood pressure: a hypertensive medication.
- n. A person with or susceptible to hypertension.
- n. A drug capable of causing an increase in blood pressure.
Wiktionary
- adj. of, pertaining to, or causing hypertension
- n. a person with hypertension
- n. a drug that increases blood pressure
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. having abnormally high blood pressure.
- n. Causing high blood pressure.
- n. A person who suffers from persistently high blood pressure.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having abnormally high blood pressure
- n. a person who has abnormally high blood pressure
Examples
“The general statistics arrived on the basis of various studies by different institutions reveal that 3. 5-4 per cent of people with hypertension have a risk for heart attacks, 3 per cent of people have a risk of stroke and a long-term hypertensive person has a risk of kidney disease.”
“The Kyoto Heart study links valsartan and an improved cardiovascular outcome in Japanese hypertensive patients”
“These types of disorders, also called hypertensive disorders, can cause complications and may result in infant death.”
“His current beef is that he resents being labeled "hypertensive" even though his blood pressure has been well-controlled on medication for many years.”
“According to this report, currently over 160,000 Canadians aged 20-30 and over 340,000 Canadians aged 35-44 are hypertensive.”
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Obesity Drives Hypertension Epidemic in the Young
“Whatever the mechanisms, it has long been well demonstrated that salt restriction (as well as use of diuretics) is particularly effective in lowering blood pressure in obese hypertensive individuals.”
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“In this study, it seems that foods rich in nutrients and minerals and low in pro-inflammatory components seem to act as medicine in our body to positively affect our own PRA system in our favor when we have hypertension, such that when hypertensive people have lowering of their blood pressure, the body knows not to increase PRA so as to allow blood pressure to normalize.”
The Huffington Post: Julie Chen, M.D.: Using Food as Medicine and Our Ally
“Currently, there are tens of millions of people suffering from obesity in China; the number of diabetics is increasing by 3,000 a day; and that of hypertensive patients, who exceed 100 million, is rising at an annual rate of 2.5%.”
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“A 2008 USDA study showed that regularly consuming hibiscus tea lowered blood pressure in a group of pre-hypertensive and mildly hypertensive adults.”
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