Development of High Blood Pressure and its Consequences for Health

摘要: In clinical medicine, biological traits are often described in qualitative terms such as healthy-ill, normal-abnormal, and normotensive-hypertensive. This dichotomy suggests that the contrasting groups qualitatively different. Hypertension is not regarded a defined disease, because it has been repeatedly shown blood pressure continuously distributed population, hypertension most represents only upper end of distribution. true for majority cases, namely those with primary (essential) hypertension. Another fact indicating graded disorder gradually increasing risk pressure.