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
  • That can be enough to get them out of the hypertensive range entirely.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 12 June 2026
  • What would the new screenings for hypertensive issues look like?
    — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Her easy, quirky friendship with the hypertensive Cryer rings true.
    — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Across the racial groups, the most common cause of death was ischemic heart disease followed by hypertensive disease.
    — Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Symptoms of a hypertensive crisis include chest pain, shortness of breath, and severe headache.
    — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 26 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • High blood pressure can cause hypertensive retinopathy and high blood sugar can cause diabetic retinopathy.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Thirty-three percent of women were hypertensive, compared to 26 percent of men.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • For example, my patient, who was obese, diabetic and hypertensive and had coronary artery disease, is found dead.
    — Scientific American, 24 July 2017
  • Deaths from Alzheimer’s, hypertensive heart diseases and dementia all increased about 20% or more.
    — USA Today, 22 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Combined alpha- and beta-blockers are used for the treatment of heart failure; they are sometimes prescribed for treating a hypertensive crisis.
    — Craig O. Weber, Verywell Health, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The medical examiner ruled out suicide and murder, recording hypertensive crisis as the cause of death.
    — Ada Ferrer, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • Native women were at higher risk of hypertensive disorders, according to the data.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
  • 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 instructor had a history of hypertensive disease, also known as high blood pressure, according to the report.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • The cause was hypertensive cardiovascular disease, said her son, Jonathan Schiller.
    — Olesia Plokhii, Washington Post, 8 July 2018
  • Monk’s death certificate lists hypertensive cardiovascular disease as his cause of death, according to the lawsuit.
    — Rachel Paik, Fox News, 13 July 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The cause was complications from hypertensive disease, said a son, James Hawfield II.
    — Washington Post, 26 May 2018
  • The cause of death was hypertensive cardiovascular disease, according to his death certificate.
    — Lynn Arditi, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2019
  • Monk's death certificate listed hypertensive cardiovascular disease as the cause of his passing, but the man's family disputes that.
    — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • 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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