Familial hypertension
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congenital hypertension, genetic hypertension
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Scope Note
persistently high arterial blood pressure occurring in or affecting more members of a family than would be expected by chance.
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- The data obtained suggest that the familial hypertension is an autosomal dominant hereditary disease.
- Familial hypertension is associated with a tendency toward higher glomerular pressures.
- Part 1 of the book describes the essentials of hypertension itself, from the clinical workup of the patient with high blood pressure (curiously, familial hypertension is omitted from the clinical assessment) to the choice of treatment.
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