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hypertensionAbnormally high blood pressure due to a variety of causes, leading to excessive contraction of the smooth muscle cells of the walls of the arteries. It increases the risk of kidney disease, stroke, and heart attack. Hypertension is one of the major public health problems of the developed world, affecting 15-20% of adults in industrialized countries (1996). It may be of unknown cause (essential hypertension), or it may occur in association with some other condition, such as kidney disease (secondary or symptomatic hypertension). It is controlled with a low-salt diet and drugs. |
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| For white women, the greatest increases in risk are from hemorrhage, cardiomyopathy (heart disease of unknown cause), embolism and other medical conditions aggravated by pregnancy; for black women, the most elevated risks of death are from hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, strokes, infections and other medical conditions. Those results led some doctors to prescribe a baby aspirin a day for pregnant patients, even those at relatively low risk of the hypertensive disorder. Pre-eclampsia and other hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are a leading global cause of maternal and infant illness and death," said Coggins. |
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