Disease or Syndrome
essential hypertension
[ uh-sen-shuhl hahy-per-ten-shuhn ]
Subclass of:
Hypertensive disease
Definitions related to essential hypertension:
  • High blood pressure with no known cause; also called primary hypertension.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • Hypertension occurring without preexisting renal disease or known organic cause.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Hypertension that occurs without known cause, or preexisting renal disease. Associated polymorphisms for a number of genes have been identified, including AGT, GNB3, and ECE1. OMIM: 145500
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Hypertension that presents without an identifiable cause.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Essential hypertension is defined as BP ?140/90 mmHg, with no secondary cause identified. The main goal of treatment is to decrease the risk of mortality and of cardiovascular and renal morbidity.
    Epocrates
    Athenahealth, Inc., 2019
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