What is secondary hypertension?

Hypertension is high blood pressure. Blood pressure secondary to some other disease is called secondary hypertension. Hypertension without any other known cause is called primary hypertension or essential hypertension. Usual hypertension which we hear of in adults is primary hypertension. But hypertension in children, though rare, is most often secondary. In fact, it is mentioned that secondary hypertension is more common in the extremes of age.

Видео What is secondary hypertension? канала Johnson Francis, MBBS, MD, DM