How to Use hypertensive in a Sentence

hypertensive

adjective
  • The hypertensive spikes started to amp up, which brought along chest pain.
    Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2022
  • What would the new screenings for hypertensive issues look like?
    Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Across the racial groups, the most common cause of death was ischemic heart disease followed by hypertensive disease.
    Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Deaths from hypertensive heart disease, or heart ailments due to high blood pressure, doubled and are on track to remain that high in 2021.
    USA Today, 22 Dec. 2021
  • One study asked a group of hypertensive people to spend $40 on themselves, while another group with high blood pressure was told to spend the money on others.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
  • One study asked a group of hypertensive people to spend $40 on themselves, while another group of people with high blood pressure were told to spend the money on others.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 13 Nov. 2022
  • For a hypertensive obese patient, adding testosterone is like putting rocket fuel in a Pacer.
    Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 4 Feb. 2014
  • People who drank more had a higher risk of stroke, heart failure, fatal hypertensive disease and fatal aortic aneurysm, where your artery or vein swells up and could burst.
    Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Deaths from Alzheimer’s, hypertensive heart diseases and dementia all increased about 20% or more.
    USA Today, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Just after the new year, Brian Boam, who was hypertensive, went to a hospital feverish and vomiting.
    Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The cause was complications from hypertensive disease, said a son, James Hawfield II.
    Washington Post, 26 May 2018
  • No one knows exactly why hypertensive disorders have doubled in prevalence in the past three decades, but women are having children at older ages than in the past.
    Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Thirty-three percent of women were hypertensive, compared to 26 percent of men.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Wang also called on a medical expert to argue that Clark may have died from a hypertensive bleed in her brain, which would have been brought on by her elevated blood pressure and blood thinners.
    Evan Sernoffsky, SFChronicle.com, 18 June 2018
  • The same damage is also believed to trigger preeclampsia and other hypertensive disorders in the mother, which can impair the liver and kidneys, trigger strokes, and even result in death.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2022
  • For example, my patient, who was obese, diabetic and hypertensive and had coronary artery disease, is found dead.
    Scientific American, 24 July 2017
  • The instructor had a history of hypertensive disease, also known as high blood pressure, according to the report.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
  • While high blood pressure is one of the top causes of maternal deaths and complications, experts estimate that up to 60 percent of hypertensive deaths are preventable.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 July 2018
  • The shares of Covid-19 death records mentioning conditions like diabetes and hypertensive diseases have also stayed similar to their shares during the height of the pandemic.
    New York Times, 10 June 2021
  • The medical examiner ruled out suicide and murder, recording hypertensive crisis as the cause of death.
    Ada Ferrer, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The cause was hypertensive cardiovascular disease, said her son, Jonathan Schiller.
    Olesia Plokhii, Washington Post, 8 July 2018
  • Where the trial stands: The defense argues Floyd's hypertensive heart disease and ingestion of meth and fentanyl, together with the struggle with police, led him to suffer from heart strain and ultimately die.
    Eric Ferkenhoff, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2021
  • High blood pressure can cause hypertensive retinopathy and high blood sugar can cause diabetic retinopathy.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Pfizer’s trial also found a slightly higher number of hypertensive disorders like pre-eclampsia among the vaccine group.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Now that folks are out and about, restaurants are fighting for the crowd that wants to save a buck … and driving another nail into our increasing obese, diabetic, hypertensive disabled population.
    Hank Cardello, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • Native women were at higher risk of hypertensive disorders, according to the data.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
  • That includes increases in the rates of deaths from strokes, hypertensive heart disease and heart failure—all diseases associated with obesity.
    Betsy McKay, WSJ, 21 June 2019
  • About 75% of the women who developed hypertensive disorders in the study developed preeclampsia, marked by severely high blood pressure along with signs of liver or kidney damage after the 20th week of pregnancy.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • But women who were hypertensive at an average age of 44 had a 68 percent higher risk for dementia than those who had normal blood pressure at that age, even after adjusting for B.M.I., smoking and other risk factors.
    Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The initial report noted that Floyd had underlying health conditions such as coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease.
    Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 2 June 2020

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