How to Use high blood pressure in a Sentence

high blood pressure

noun
Definition of high blood pressurenext
  • While at the home, the mother of the boys complained of high blood pressure and was examined by paramedics.
    — cleveland, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Chronically high blood pressure can cause heart damage.
    — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Losartan and hydrochlorothiazide are most commonly used as treatment for high blood pressure.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2022
  • This risk for problems was also found across all ages, sexes, races and cardiac risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure and obesity.
    — Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Mitchell walked out of Jessup prison nine years ago with $18 and a 30-day supply of high blood pressure pills in his pocket.
    — Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Anxiety can bring on insomnia, nightmares, dizziness, panic attacks and high blood pressure.
    — Meryl Davids Landau, Good Housekeeping, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Chronic lack of sleep has been linked to problems like diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and impaired cognitive function.
    — WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Cupp’s doctor put him on medications to reduce swelling and high blood pressure and tried a second time to win approval for a left heart catheter examination.
    — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Your doctor should ask about your medical history to identify potential heart failure risk factors, such as diabetes or high blood pressure.
    — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 14 Feb. 2022
  • For example, current guidelines to treat cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure are based primarily on data from men.
    — Amy Huebschmann, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
  • This tax cut is, of course, precisely the wrong idea — particularly from the Democratic point of view. Treating inflation with a tax cut is like treating high blood pressure with meth.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Take it for a while to wipe out the high blood pressure then stop.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Counts 1 in 4 Number of U.S. adults who have high blood pressure.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
  • López Obrador suffered a heart attack in 2013 and has high blood pressure.
    — Fabiola SÁnchez, ajc, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Your spouse or partner suffers from high blood pressure, and the doctor has told him to cut back on salt.
    — Francine Russo, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Kevin Heath now attributes his own high blood pressure to the renewables fight.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • While not all causes of high blood pressure are in your control, there are still many ways to reduce your risk.
    — Christina Crawford, Health.com, 19 Apr. 2022
  • These are the products that are linked to heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • More than a third of patients presented with high blood pressure.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the most common causes are coronary artery disease (CAD) and high blood pressure.
    — Lambeth Hochwald, Health, 3 May 2024
  • Her father died at the same age after high blood pressure, diabetes and a stroke.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
  • Many people with high blood pressure don’t have any symptoms.
    — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Any loud or inescapable sounds can cause hearing loss, stress, and high blood pressure, the magazine said.
    — Sara Chernikoff, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2024
  • Captopril, the first, was created in the 1970s from the venom of a Brazilian jararaca pit viper to treat high blood pressure.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • The highest risk for high blood pressure was found among people with asthma, researchers said.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Consider 51-year-old Mr. R, who is overweight and has high blood pressure.
    — Laurie Whitsel, STAT, 6 May 2024
  • About 70% of Americans will have high blood pressure in their lifetimes.
    — Fortune Well, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Both his doctor and I urged him to get vaccinated because of his age, his weight and his high blood pressure.
    — New York Times, 22 June 2022
  • There are many different supplements that have been shown to help with high blood pressure.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
  • At the most extreme level, for example, are tumors of the adrenal glands, or pheochromocytomas, which commonly lead to high blood pressure that reaches life-threatening levels.
    — Angela Haupt, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024

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