Medical Terminology / Unit 7 MedTerm 0442 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hypertension
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The idea
Hypertension is blood pressure persistently above the normal range.
In practice
A reading is recorded as systolic pressure over diastolic pressure.
Where people slip
Hypertension names a measured finding. Its opposite differs by two letters.
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