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Name of the medical condition and other names that it’s been known by • Hypertension • High blood pressure • Raised blood pressure What is Hypertension? Hypertension is a condition where the pressure of blood in your blood vessels is consistently too high. Imagine your blood vessels as pipes and your blood as water flowing through them. In hypertension, the water pushes against the pipes with too much force. Blood pressure is measured using two numbers. The first number (systolic) is the pressur