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• n  a person who has abnormally high blood pressure
• a  having abnormally high blood pressure

• New evidence suggests that oats may also help lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients.
• If patients enter a trial with multiple complications if they are, say, not only depressed, but also cocaine-addicted, hypertensive and diabetic you dramatically increase .
• Usually people take hypertensive drugs in the morning, when they wake up.

• hypotensive

News & Articles

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• Family files claim in death of man beaten by officers
  David Silva died in early May after the beating in Kern County. An autopsy had deemed the death accidental due to hypertensive heart disease. The family of a man who died after being beaten by Kern County Sheriff's deputies and attacked by a police dog have filed a federal civil rights claim against the officers involved, the department and other agencies, a precursor to a lawsuit.        
  June 16, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Tariana Turia in Scoop.co.nz (press release)
  Just in my own clinic, I've seen patients coming in - diabetics, hypertensive, cardiovascular disease - they've been on medications for many years through another health system and they're coming in cold to our system and having to start from... William Walker http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(soldier)&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH4ODZg5gwDsqNHJBKskbdJEgeVSA Inside Bay Area http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.insidebayarea.com/health/ci_11777623&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGx2X2bvTzouH_y0K6exfRtQZQHqw Feb 24, 2009 49035 66590 hypertensive Maori also had at least double the rate for non-Maori mortality in lung cancer, stomach cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, other forms of heart disease, transport accidents and hypertensive disease" said Mrs Turia.
• Mar Roxas in Manila Times
  Hypertensive patients cannot afford to miss their expensive maintenance drugs even for a day. With the cancellation of the patent over Norvasc, more than 7 million hypertensive patients will benefit through reduced prices,Roxas said.