Hypertension

My grandfather suffers from hypertension.

Tom has hypertension.

Patients with hypertension should be monitored closely when taking this medication.

Figs reduce hypertension.

Tom's eye doctor determined that he has ocular hypertension without glaucoma.

This is characteristic of patients with hypertension.

He wasn't able to resist eating roasted pig as it looks delicious despite that he has hypertension.

The roasted pig looks so delicious that he wasn't able to resist eating some despite that he has hypertension.

Data from more than 100 million people aged 30 to 79 in 184 countries showed that more than 700 million people with hypertension, a life-threatening illness, go untreated. Most do so because they are undiagnosed and do not know they have this condition.

Over the past three decades, the study found, the burden of hypertension has shifted from wealthy nations to low-and-middle-income countries. Majid Ezzati, professor of global environmental health at Imperial College London, said that while hypertension has decreased in wealthy nations, it has increased in many of the poorer countries.