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What is is hypertension?

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 10/28/2021

High Blood Pressure

"Hyper" is High

"Hypo" is Low

Tension is Blood Pressure

Hyper would be anything over 150 systolic and 90 diastolic

Hypo would be anything lower than 100 systolic

top number systolic, bottom diastolic

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