high blood pressure
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A standard medical term for blood pressure that is abnormally high, especially the ongoing condition known as hypertension.
high blood pressure、hypertension
It refers to abnormally high pressure in the blood vessels or to hypertension as an ongoing medical condition.
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ความดันโลหิตสูงเพิ่มความเสี่ยงต่อโรคหัวใจ khwaam dan loohìt sǔuŋ phə̂əm khwaam sìaŋ tɔ̀ɔ rôok hǔacay High blood pressure increases the risk of heart disease. ความดันโลหิตสูงเพิ่มความเสี่ยงต่อโรคหัวใจ details
Learning notes
Explanation
ความดันโลหิตสูง is the standard noun used for high blood pressure in medical and health-related contexts. It consists of ความดัน “pressure,” โลหิต “blood,” and สูง “high.” โลหิต is a more clinical word for blood than the everyday เลือด. โรคความดันโลหิตสูง explicitly names hypertension as a disease. In everyday conversation, speakers often shorten the term to ความดันสูง. Its opposite, “low blood pressure,” is ความดันโลหิตต่ำ.
Usage
This term is common in medical appointments, health screenings, discussions of blood-pressure readings, medication or diet advice, and health information. Common patterns include เป็นความดันโลหิตสูง for having hypertension and มีความดันโลหิตสูง for having high blood pressure.
Caution
ความดันโลหิตสูง names the condition of high blood pressure; it does not mean a particular blood-pressure reading. To ask for the reading, say ความดันโลหิตเท่าไร, “What is the blood pressure?” The shortened ความดันสูง can simply mean “high pressure” outside a medical context, so the full term is clearer when context is uncertain.