"Essential hypertension" refers to high blood pressure that develops without any clear underlying cause or specific reason.
Full definition
Primary hypertension (which is also
called essential hypertension) is by far the most common form of hypertension, with over 90 per cent of all cases being attributed to this type.
90 - 95 % of all cases of high blood pressure are characterized
as essential hypertension, which means that it's an independent condition that is not triggered by another disease condition.
Watanabe T, et al The blood pressure - lowering effect and safety of chlorogenic acid from green coffee bean extract
in essential hypertension.
The deCODE study is the largest population genetic study ever carried out in patients
with essential hypertension — high blood pressure without a known secondary cause — and reports the strongest genome - wide linkage of any research on this condition to date.
During the surveillance period, there were 230,564 incident diagnoses
of essential hypertension in active component service members.
In contrast to people, where primary hypertension (also
called essential hypertension) is most common, secondary hypertension is more common in cats.
An article reporting the findings, «Linkage of
essential hypertension to chromosome 18q,» authored by the deCODE team and collaborating cardiologists from Iceland's National University Hospital, is published in the latest edition of the American Heart Association journal Hypertension.
The crosstalk between insulin and the sympathetic nervous system: possible implications in the pathogenesis of
essential hypertension.
Essential hypertension: an insulin - resistant state.
Essential hypertension is common in humans.
Hypertension that is not caused by any other medical condition or disease is called primary or
essential hypertension.
A didactic series of lessons was presented focusing upon the role of weight management, diet and physical activity in the prevention of
essential hypertension and their beneficial influence upon blood pressure and other CVD risk factors based on National Institutes of Health guidelines on weight loss, diet (reducing salt and sodium intake) and increasing physical activity.
Clinical knowledge has linked anger to health problems (eg,
essential hypertension), psychosocial problems (eg, abusive behaviour), and some clinicians would like anger to be considered a disorder similar to anxiety and depression.