Hypertension
81Clinical and Experimental Hypertension —   …
82Portal hypertension — ] However, in less industrialized parts of the world, climate permitting, the major cause is schistosomiasis. One of the best known cases in recent years is Katie MacLennan Signs and symptomsConsequences of portal hypertension are caused by blood …
83essential hypertension — n a common form of hypertension that occurs in the absence of any evident cause, is marked hemodynamically by elevated peripheral vascular resistance, and has multiple risk factors (as family history of hypertension, high dietary sodium intake,… …
84Gestational hypertension — ICDO = Caption = OMIM = OMIM mult = MedlinePlus = 000898 eMedicineSubj = med eMedicineTopic = 3250 DiseasesDB = 5208 Gestational hypertension or pregnancy induced hypertension is defined as the development of new arterial hypertension in a… …
85Exercise hypertension — is an excessive rise in blood pressure during exercise. Many of those with exercise hypertension have spikes in systolic pressure to 250 mmHg or greater.A rise in systolic blood pressure to over 200 mmHg when exercising at 100 W is pathological,… …
86Non-modulating essential hypertension — is a form of salt sensitive hypertension, where sodium intake does not modulate either adrenal or renal vascular responses to angiotensin II. Individuals with this subset have been termed non modulators.[1] They make up 25 30% of the hypertensive …
87malignant hypertension — noun severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain malignant hypertension is the most lethal form of hypertension • Hypernyms: ↑high blood pressure,… …
88Portopulmonary hypertension — is the coexistence of portal hypertension and pulmonary hypertension.External links* [http://www.phassociation.org/Medical/Advances in PH/Summer 2004/porto.asp Portopulmonary Hypertension: Understanding Pulmonary Hypertension in the Setting of… …
89pulmonary hypertension — a condition in which there is raised blood pressure within the blood vessels supplying the lungs (the pulmonary artery blood pressure is normally much lower than the pressure within the aorta and its branches). Pulmonary hypertension may… …
90essential hypertension — noun persistent and pathological high blood pressure for which no specific cause can be found • Syn: ↑hyperpiesia, ↑hyperpiesis • Hypernyms: ↑high blood pressure, ↑hypertension * * * noun : abnormally high blood pressure, both systolic and… …
