Inquiry Into Life (16th Edition)
Inquiry Into Life (16th Edition)
16th Edition
ISBN: 9781260231700
Author: Sylvia S. Mader, Michael Windelspecht
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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The thresholds for recognizing the hypertension in a person.

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Hypertension is also known as high blood pressure. It is a condition when the blood pressure (force of the blood) against the blood vessel walls is constantly too high. It is a common disease in which blood flows across the arteries or blood vessels at higher than normal pressures.

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