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High Blood Pressure and Hypertension are the same thing

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Difference between primary hypertension and secondary hypertension?

Primary hypertension is hypertension or high blood pressure diagnosed without any other underlying disease that might have caused it. Secondary hypertension is due to another underlying disease causing the high blood pressure.


What is the other name of blood pressure?

High blood pressure is hypertension, and low blood pressure is hypotension.


What is pre hypertension?

Pre-hypertension is when your blood pressure is between 120/80 mmHg and 139/89 mmHg. You do not have high blood pressure but are considered at risk for hypertension.


Are hypertension and pulmonary hypertension the same?

Postural means standing. Hypertension means high blood pressure and hypotension is low blood pressure. You get a different reading if you are sitting versus standing while taking blood pressure.


Is blood pressure hypertension?

Yes, hypertension and high blood pressure are the same thing. Hypertension is the accepted medical term, while high blood pressure if more colloquial.


IS Hypertension is low blood pressure?

No, that is incorrect. The term hypertension means high blood pressure. Hypotension means low blood pressure.


What is the pressure of blood pumping through the blood vessels is constantly too high?

This would mean that the person has high blood pressure and the medical term for this is hypertension.


What is the other name for hypertension?

The common name for hypertension is high blood pressure. To be diagnosed with high blood pressure, a person typically has three or more readings of 140/90 or higher.


Are there supplements for blood pressure?

Blood pressure, or hypertension can he helped a lot by changing your diet. Usually people that have hypertension should avoid high sugar, and sodium. www.webmd.com/���hypertension-high-blood-pressure/���dash-diet


What is a name of high blood pressure medicine?

Hypertension = High Blood Pressure Tachycardia = High Pulse


What hypertension means?

Hypertension is the medical term for high blood pressure. it means that you are overly hyper! ha ha ha ha ha ha Hypertension is actually a condition where there is elevated blood pressure in the body.


What foods are allowed on the hypertension diet?

Hypertension is actually also called high blood pressure. There are diets that will help with this. http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/dash-diet