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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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| We look forward to giving additional support to hypertensive patients by providing further information to medical professions to support the efficacy and safety of Diovan. The bill expands the list of diseases presumed under law to be related to a veteran's experience as a prisoner of war to include atherosclerotic heart disease, hypertensive vascular disease, complications from those two diseases, stroke and complications from a stroke. 0] exposures at 1- to 4-hr moving averages were associated with SDNN and r-MSSD in both cardiac and hypertensive patients. |
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