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The American Heart Association estimated the direct and indirect costs of high blood pressure in 2010 as $76.6 billion. [163] In the US 80% of people with hypertension are aware of their condition, 71% take some antihypertensive medication, but only 48% of people aware that they have hypertension adequately control it. [ 163 ]
Increasing age, with the highest risk after ages 45 in men and 55 in women Being assigned male at birth Family history, especially having a genetic disorder called familial hypercholesterolemia
Normal. Less than 120 and. Less than 80. Elevated. 120-129 and. Less than 80. Stage 1 Hypertension. 130-139 or. 80-89. Stage 2 Hypertension. 140 or higher or. 90 or higher
Eponymous medical signs are those that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous patient. This list includes other eponymous entities of diagnostic significance; i.e. tests, reflexes, etc.
There is an ongoing medical debate over what is the optimal level of blood pressure to target when using drugs to lower blood pressure with hypertension, particularly in older people. [ 13 ] Blood pressure fluctuates from minute to minute and normally shows a circadian rhythm over a 24-hour period, [ 14 ] with highest readings in the early ...
[7] [8] People withdrawing from medications such as clonidine or beta-blockers have been frequently found to develop hypertensive crises. [9] It is important to note that these conditions exist outside of hypertensive emergency, in that patients diagnosed with these conditions are at increased risk of hypertensive emergencies or end organ failure.
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The results of these studies prompted public health campaigns to increase public awareness of hypertension and promoted the measurement and treatment of high blood pressure. These measures appear to have contributed at least in part to the observed 50% fall in stroke and ischemic heart disease between 1972 and 1994. [21]