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What's the difference between high blood pressure and hypertension?

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Dr. Gerald Neuberg answered

Specializes in Cardiology

Almost same: High BP is a single reading that can go up temporarily from exercise, stress, pain or illness. Hypertension is a treatable diagnosis of repeated high BP readings > 140/90 without acute stress. Other than that they are often used to mean the same thing.

Answered 11/1/2016

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Dr. Payam Mehranpour answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine - Cardiology

Measurement : High blood pressure is when blood pressure is measured to be high, which may occur in normal individuals too. Hypertension is a medical condition with consistently high blood pressure readings, which needs to be treated.

Answered 3/26/2019

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