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Primary hypertension means high blood pressure with no obvious underlying medical cause. Various lifestyle choices and conditions influence high blood pressure but don't necessarily cause it. These include obesity, stress, excessive alcohol consumption and a sedentary lifestyle.
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∙ 12y agoThe cause of essential hypertension is idiopathic. Idiopathic means unknown.
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∙ 10y agoThe main cause of developing hypertension is the heart work much harder than usual to pump blood throughout the body. Hypertension is another word for High Blood Pressure.
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What is primary hypertension?
Hypertension without a known cause is called primary or essential hypertension.
Essential hypertension is the result of an underlying pathologic condition in another body system?
Essential hypertension means there is no known causes. Secondary hypertension means there is some known cause of your elevated pressure. Treatment would gear toward whatever that cause. However, the majority of hypertension is essential.
What is hypertension essential?
High blood pressure with no discovered medical cause.
An elevated blood pressure without apparent cause is called what?
essential hypertension
What is the deifference between essential hypertension and secondary hypertension?
Essential hypertension is much the same as primary hypertension while secondary hypertension is high blood pressure caused by another underlying disease.
What accounts for 90 percent of all hypertension?
Essential Hypertension
What does ICD-9 code 401.1 mean?
Essential hypertensionBenign essential hypertensionBenign essential hypertension401.1 Benign (for Hypertension)401.0 Malignant (for Hypertension)
Why Blood pressure and heart beat raise?
Soda, caffeine, alcohol, drugs, and medications are some causes of high blood pressure. Two forms of high blood pressure have been described: essential (or primary) hypertension and secondary hypertension. Essential hypertension is a far more common condition and accounts for 95% of hypertension. The cause of essential hypertension is multifactorial, that is, there are several factors whose combined effects produce hypertension secondary hypertension, which accounts for 5% of hypertension, the high blood pressure is secondary to (caused by) a specific abnormality in one of the organs or systems of the body Essential hypertension affects approximately 72 million Americans, yet its basic causes or underlying defects are not always known.
Is it true that hypertension which is caused by another condition is called essential hypertension?
true
What is essensial hypertension?
Essential hypertension is presence of sustained hypertension (>140/90) mm hg without any presence of disease.
What is The correct ICD-10 code for essential hypertension?
The code for hypertension is I10
What has the author Per Lund-Johansen written?
Per Lund-Johansen has written: 'Hemodynamics in early essential hypertension' -- subject(s): Essential hypertension, Hemodynamics
