Older patients with very incomplete spinal cord injuries and systolic hypertension without symptoms are usually experiencing essential hypertension, not autonomic dysreflexia.
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Primary or essential hypertension is more common in adolescents and has multiple risk factors, including obesity and a family history of hypertension.
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In people with essential hypertension the baroreceptors and their reflexes change and function to maintain the elevated blood pressure as if normal.
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These mechanisms are not mutually exclusive and it is likely that both contribute to some extent in most cases of essential hypertension.
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Although seriously ill with essential hypertension and Communist regime was fully established; the Bucharest university leadership refused to have his coffin publicly displayed.
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Aminopeptidases play a role in the metabolism of several peptides that may be involved in blood pressure and the pathogenesis of essential hypertension.
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For instance, in 1943, Dandy published an operation for treatment of essential hypertension by sectioning the sympathetic nerves, but nowadays hypertension is treated with medications.
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The term essential hypertension ('Essentielle Hypertonie') was coined by Eberhard Frank in 1911 to describe elevated blood pressure for which no cause could be found.
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Biofeedback therapists use pneumograph biofeedback with patients diagnosed with anxiety disorders, asthma, chronic pulmonary obstructive disorder ( COPD ), essential hypertension, panic attacks, and stress.
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Twins have been included in studies measuring ambulatory blood pressure; from these studies it has been suggested that essential hypertension contains a large genetic influence.
