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- noun A
blood pressure higher thannormal but not high enough to be consideredhypertension .
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Examples
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For the first time, they have come out with a new category of what they're calling prehypertension, in other words, people whose blood pressure isn't so high it needs to be treated with drugs, but a category where doctors need to be worried.
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Those children have slightly elevated blood pressure and are diagnosed with so-called "prehypertension."
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The study participants all had mild hypertension (known as stage 1 hypertension) or moderately elevated blood pressure (known as prehypertension), and none were taking drugs to lower blood pressure.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Now a new study has found that middle-aged people with blood pressure that's only slightly above normal -- a condition known as prehypertension -- are 68% more likely to have a stroke than those with normal blood pressure.
CNN.com 2011
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Some doctors don ' t even like the term " prehypertension, " let alone the idea of treating it with drugs.
Hidden Heart Disease Laura Landro 2010
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Anthony Viera , a family physician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says he doesn ' t tell patients they have " prehypertension, " instead counseling them on lifestyle modifications.
Hidden Heart Disease Laura Landro 2010
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Until 2003, most people would not have thought twice about a blood pressure in your range, but that year guidelines from the National Institutes of Health introduced the term "prehypertension" for blood pressures of 120-139/80-89.
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The definition of hypertension has been refined and new limits for what is now considered prehypertension have been established.
Bruce A. Barron: Million Hearts Program and the New York Blood Center Bruce A. Barron 2011
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A review of recent studies suggests that young and middle-aged people with slightly elevated blood pressure, or prehypertension, are at much greater risk of stroke than those whose blood pressure is in the normal range.
Bruce A. Barron: Million Hearts Program and the New York Blood Center Bruce A. Barron 2011
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The definition of hypertension has been refined and new limits for what is now considered prehypertension have been established.
Bruce A. Barron: Million Hearts Program and the New York Blood Center Bruce A. Barron 2011
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