Common causes of High blood pressure
Introduction:
This information shows the various causes of High blood pressure, and how common these diseases
or conditions are in the general population.
This is not a direct indication as to how commonly these diseases are the actual cause
of High blood pressure, but gives a relative idea as to how frequent these diseases are seen overall.
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diseases that are "very common".
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diseases that are "common".
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diseases that are "uncommon".
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diseases that are "rare".
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diseases that are "very rare".
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diseases without any prevalence information.
Causes of High blood pressure that are very common
The following causes of High blood pressure are diseases or medical conditions that
affect more than 10 million people in the USA:
Causes of High blood pressure that are common
The following causes of High blood pressure are diseases or conditions that
affect more than 1 million people in the USA:
Causes of High blood pressure that are uncommon
The following causes of High blood pressure are diseases or conditions that
affect more than 200,000 people, but less than 1 million people in the USA:
Causes of High blood pressure that are rare
The offical US government definition of a "rare" disease is one that
affects 200,000 people or less.
The following causes of High blood pressure appear in the population
at a rate of less than 200,000 people per year in the USA:
Causes of High blood pressure that are very rare
The following causes of High blood pressure appear in the population
at a rate of substantially less than 200,000 people per year in the USA:
Causes of High blood pressure without any prevalence information
The following causes of High blood pressure are ones for which
we do not have any prevalence information.
- 11?-Hydroxylase deficiency
- 17?-Hydroxylase deficiency
- Abdominal obesity metabolic syndrome - high blood pressure
- Absence of pulmonary artery - pulmonary hypertension
- Acid-Base Imbalance - pulmonary hypertension
- Acquired total lipodystrophy - hypertension
- Acrodynia - hypertension
- Acromegaly - Hypertension
- Acute intermittent porphyria - hypertension
- Acute Renal Failure - hypertension
- Acute severe vascular damage
- Adams Nance syndrome - hypertension
- Adrenal adenoma, familial - high blood pressure
- Adrenal Cancer - high blood pressure
- Adrenal Cortex Diseases - high blood pressure
- Adrenal gland hyperfunction - high blood pressure
- Adrenal hyperplasia, congenital, due to 11-Beta-hydroxylase deficiency - hypertension
- Adrenal hypertension - high blood pressure
- Adrenal incidentaloma - high blood pressure
- Adrenal medulla neoplasm - high blood pressure
- Adult Cystic Fibrosis - pulmonary hypertension
- Albuminuria - high blood pressure
- Alcohol-induced pseudo-Cushing syndrome - hypertension
- Allain Babin Demarquez syndrome - hypertension
- Alveolar capillary dysplasia - pulmonary hypertension
- Amphetamine abuse - high blood pressure
- Amphetamine intoxication
- Amphetamine poisoning - hypertension
- Amyloidosis, familial visceral - arterial hypertension
- Analgesic nephropathy
- Analgesic nephropathy syndrome - hypertension
- Analgesic syndrome - hypertension
- Angiotensin renin aldosterone hypertension - hypertension
- Angiotensin/rennin/aldosterone hypertension - high blood pressure
- Anxiety
- Aortic valve condition
- Apparent mineralocorticoid excess - hypertension
- Apparent Mineralocorticoid Excess, type 2 - hypertension
- Aristolochic Acid poisoning - hypertension
- Arizona Bark Scorpion poisoning - high blood pressure
- Arterial occlusive disease, progressive -- hypertension -- heart defects -- bone fragility -- brachysyndactyly - hypertension
- Arteriosclerosis
- Asphyxia - high blood pressure
- Atheroma
- Atrial Septal Defect 3 - pulmonary hypertension
- Atrial Septal Defect 4 - pulmonary hypertension
- Atrial Septal Defect 5 - pulmonary hypertension
- Atrial Septal Defect 6 - pulmonary hypertension
- Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome - severe high blood pressure
- Autoimmune Vasculitis - Hypertension
- Autonomic dysreflexia syndrome - high blood pressure
- Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease - high blood pressure
- Avasthey syndrome - pulmonary hypertension
- Binswanger Disease - high blood pressure
- Black widow spider envenomation - high blood pressure
- Bone cement implantation syndrome - pulmonary hypertension
- Brachydactyly -- arterial hypertension - hypertension
- Brachydactyly with hypertension - arterial hypertension
- Brain stem encephalitis
- Breathing-related sleep disorder - systemic hypertension
- Bright's Disease - hypertension
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia - systemic hypertension
- Cadmium poisoning
- Carnevale-Canun-Mendoza syndrome - high blood pressure
- Carotid Paraganglioma - hypertension
- Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome - high blood pressure
- Cathinone poisoning - high blood pressure
- Central sleep apnea - high blood pressure
- Certain medications
- Chemical poisoning -- Acetaldehyde - high blood pressure
- Choroideremia -- hypopituitarism - high blood pressure
- Chronic Kidney Disease - high blood pressure
- Chronic kidney failure - hypertension
- Chronic pyelonephritis - high blood pressure
- Chronic renal insufficiency - high blood pressure
- Cocaine poisoning - hypertension
- Cocarction
- Cockayne syndrome - hypertension
- Codeine withdrawal - high blood pressure
- Cold temperature
- Collagen disease
- Collagen type III glomerulopathy - hypertension
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 17-alpha-hydroxylase deficiency - hypertension
- Congenital hepatic porphyria - hypertension
- Congenital mitral malformation - pulmonary hypertension
- Congenital mitral stenosis - pulmonary hypertension
- Congenital stenosis of renal artery
- Conn's adenoma - high blood pressure
- Conn's syndrome - arterial hypertension
- Conn-Louis Carcinoma - high blood pressure
- Cushing syndrome, familial - high blood pressure
- Cushing's disease - High blood pressure
- Cushing's syndrome - hypertension
- Cyclosporine toxicity - hypertension
- Cystic hamartoma of lung and kidney - high blood pressure
- Dexamethasone sensitive hypertension - high blood pressure
- Diabetes
- Diffuse systemic sclerosi - pulmonary hypertension
- Disequilibrium syndrome - hypertension
- Dysautonomia - hypertension
- Eclampsia - high blood pressure
- Ecstasy abuse - raised blood pressure
- Ectopia lentis, isolated - high blood pressure
- Eisenmenger Syndrome - pulmonary hypertension
- Electrical burns - high blood pressure
- Environment associated hypertension - high blood pressure
- Ephedrine poisoning - hypertension
- Essential hypertension - about 90-95% of cases of hypertension
- Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia - hypertension
- Fabry's Disease - hypertension
- Familial renal cell carcinoma - high blood pressure
- Faulty blood pressure apparatus
- Faulty blood pressure reading technique
- Faye-Petersen-Ward-Carey syndrome - hypertension
- Fibromuscular dysplasia
- Fibromuscular dysplasia of arteries - hypertension
- Fitzsimmons-Walson-Mellor syndrome - high blood pressure
- Fowler-Christmas-Chapple syndrome - high blood pressure
- Gaucher disease type 3 - pulmonary hypertension
- Gestational hypertension - occurring during pregnancy.
- Glomerular Disease - high blood pressure
- Glomerulonephritis - high blood pressure
- Glomerulonephritis, membranous congenital due to anti-maternal NEP alloimmunisation - hypertension
- Glucocorticoid resistance - high blood pressure
- Glycine encephalopathy, classical neonatal early-onset form - pulmonary hypertension
- Glycine encephalopathy, classical neonatal form - pulmonary hypertension
- Glycine encephalopathy, classical neonatal late-onset form - pulmonary hypertension
- Glycine synthase deficiency - pulmonary hypertension
- Glycine synthase deficiency, type 1 - pulmonary hypertension
- Glycine synthase deficiency, type 2 - pulmonary hypertension
- Goodpasture's syndrome - Hypertension
- Gouty nephropathy
- Gram's syndrome - high blood pressure
- Grange syndrome - high blood pressure
- Granulomatous arthritis of childhood - high blood pressure
- Graves Disease - high blood pressure
- Head injury
- Heart conditions - Hypertension
- Heart injury - Hypertension
- Heart valve diseases - Hypertension
- Heavy metal poisoning
- HELLP syndrome - high blood pressure
- Hemangiomatosis, familial pulmonary capillary - death due to pulmonary hypertension
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome, atypical, childhood - hypertension
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, Atypical, Susceptibility to, 1 - severe high blood pressure
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, Atypical, Susceptibility to, 2 - severe high blood pressure
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, Atypical, Susceptibility to, 3 - severe high blood pressure
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, Atypical, Susceptibility to, 4 - severe high blood pressure
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, Atypical, Susceptibility to, 5 - severe high blood pressure
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, Atypical, Susceptibility to, 6 - severe high blood pressure
- Hepatorenal tyrosinemia - hypertension
- Herbal Agent adverse reaction -- Ginseng - high blood pressure
- Herbal Agent overdose -- Ginseng - high blood pressure
- Hereditary nephritis
- Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy 3 - high blood pressure
- High alcohol consumption
- High Blood Pressure/Hypertension - High blood pressure
- Hydronephrosis congenital - hypertension
- Hyperadrenalism - high blood pressure
- Hypereosinophilic syndrome - pulmonary hypertension
- Hyperpituitarism - Hypertension
- Hypersecretion of growth hormone - high blood pressure
- Hypertension - high blood pressure
- Hypertension due to bilateral renal artery stenosis - high blood pressure
- Hypertension due to coarctation of the aorta - high blood pressure
- Hypertension in children - high blood pressure
- Hypertension in children from 11 through adolescence - high blood pressure
- Hypertension in children one to ten years - high blood pressure
- Hypertension in children under one year - high blood pressure
- Hypertension of pregnancy - high blood pressure
- Hypertensive heart disease - Hypertension
- Hypertensive hypokalemia familial - high blood pressure
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypoplastic kidney
- Hypothyroidism
- Inborn errors of adrenal steroid metabolism
- Increased intracranial pressure
- Indian Tobacco poisoning - high blood pressure
- Inherited Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome - Hypertension
- Intrinsic pressure from renal cyst
- Intrinsic pressure from renal tumor
- Irradiation
- Ischemia
- Isolated secretion of 18-hydroxy-deoxycorticosterone
- Isolated secretion of corticosterone
- Isolated secretion of deoxycorticosterone
- Jimsonweed poisoning - high blood pressure
- Juvenile Paget's Disease - high blood pressure
- Kallikrein hypertension - hypertension
- Kashani-Strom-Utley syndrome - high blood pressure
- Kidney arteriovenous fistula - hypertension
- Kidney Cancer - High blood pressure
- Kidney disease
- Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease
- Lead poisoning - High blood pressure
- Liddle's syndrome
- Limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis - pulmonary hypertension
- Lipodystrophy, familial partial, type 1 (FPLD1) - high blood pressure
- Lipodystrophy, familial partial, type 3 (FPLD3) - high blood pressure
- Lobelia poisoning - high blood pressure
- Lockwood-Feingold syndrome - hypertension
- Lupus - pulmonary hypertension
- Lupus nephritis - high blood pressure
- Lymphangiomatosis, pulmonary - pulmonary hypertension
- Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis - hypertension
- Malignant rhabdoid tumors - hypertension
- Membranous nephropathy, idiopathic - hypertension
- Mesangial sclerosis, diffuse - hypertension
- Metabolic syndrome - Hypertension
- Metabolic syndrome (syndrome X) - High blood pressure
- Methylcobalamin deficiency cbl G type - pulmonary hypertension
- Mineralocorticoid
- Mineralocorticoid excess
- Mixed sclerosing bone dystrophy - hypertension
- MSBD syndrome - hypertension
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type I Hurler syndrome - hypertension
- Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis - hypertension
- Mustard tree poisoning - hypertension
- Myxoedema
- Nephrocalcinosis - hypertension
- Nephrosclerosis - hypertension
- Nephrosis -- deafness -- urinary tract -- digital malformation - hypertension
- Nephrotic syndrome - hypertension
- Neuroblastoma - high blood pressure
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to - hypertension
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to, 1 - high blood pressure
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to, 2 - high blood pressure
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to, 3 - high blood pressure
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to, 4 - high blood pressure
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to, 5 - high blood pressure
- Neuroblastoma, Susceptibility to, 6 - high blood pressure
- Neurofibromatosis syndrome - hypertension
- Neurofibromatosis syndrome Type II - hypertension
- Neurogenic hypertension - high blood pressure
- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome - hypertension
- Nicotine addiction - High blood pressure
- Nipah virus encephalitis - hypertension
- Non-diarrheal (D-) HUS syndrome - severe high blood pressure
- NSAID
- Obesity
- Obesity hypoventilation syndrome - hypertension
- Oculo skeletal renal syndrome - high blood pressure
- Oral contraceptive pill
- Osteodysplasia, familial, Anderson type - high blood pressure
- Ovarian dysgenesis
- Paget's disease
- Paraganglioma - hypertension
- Parencymal disease
- Pediatric granulomatous arthritis - high blood pressure
- Phaechromocytoma
- Phencyclidine poisoning - hypertension
- Phenylpropanolamine poisoning - hypertension
- Pheochromocytoma - hypertension
- Pheochromocytoma as part of Neurofibromatosis - high blood pressure
- Physical activity
- Physical inactivity - hypertension
- Physical pain
- Pickwickian syndrome - hypertension
- Pierre Robin's sequence - pulmonary hypertension
- Pierson syndrome - high blood pressure
- Poliomyelitis
- Polyarteritis nodosa - hypertension
- Polycystic kidney disease type 1 - hypertension
- Polycystic kidney disease, adult type - high blood pressure
- Polycystic kidney disease, infantile type - high blood pressure
- Polycystic kidney disease, type 2 - high blood pressure
- Polycystic kidneys, severe infantile, with tuberous sclerosis - high blood pressure
- Polycystic kidny
- Polycystic ovaries urethral sphincter dysfunction - high blood pressure
- Polycythemia - hypertension
- Porphyria - high blood pressure
- Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis - high blood pressure
- Pre-eclamptic toxemia
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy toxemia /hypertension - high blood pressure
- Prehypertension - high blood pressure
- Primary aldosteronism - high blood pressure
- Primary cortisol resistance - mild hypertension
- Primary Hyperaldosteronism - high blood pressure
- Primary Hypertension - high blood pressure
- Pseudoaldosteronism - high blood pressure
- Pseudoephedrine poisoning - hypertension
- Pseudohyperaldosteronism - hypertension
- Pseudohypoaldosteronism - high blood pressure
- Pseudohypoaldosteronism type II - hypertension
- Pulmonary artery agenesis - pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary cystic lymphangiectasis - pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary embolism - pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary fibrosis /granuloma - pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary hemangiomatosis - death due to pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease - pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary venous return anomaly - pulmonary hypertension
- Pyrexia
- Recent cigarette smoking
- Renal Artery Stenosis - Hypertension
- Renal artery thrombosis
- Renal cancer, familial - high blood pressure
- Renal Cell Carcinoma 2 - high blood pressure
- Renal Cell Carcinoma 3 - high blood pressure
- Renal Cell Carcinoma 4 - high blood pressure
- Renal emboli
- Renal hypertension - high blood pressure
- Renal segmental hypoplasia-induced Hypertension - high blood pressure
- Renal tuberculosis
- Renal tubular transport disorders, inborn - hypertension
- Renin-secreting tumors
- Renoprival hypertension - high blood pressure
- Renovascular Hypertension - high blood pressure
- Renovascular stenosis - high blood pressure
- Respiratory acidosis - pulmonary hypertension
- Respiratory failure - Pulmonary hypertension
- Rhabdoid tumor - hypertension
- Salcedo syndrome - high blood pressure
- Schroeder syndrome 1 - high blood pressure
- Scleroderma, diffuse - high blood pressure
- Scleroderma, systemic - high blood pressure
- Secondary Reflux - high blood pressure
- Selye syndrome - high blood pressure
- Senior-Loken Syndrome - arterial hypertension
- Senior-Loken syndrome 1 - arterial hypertension
- Senior-Loken syndrome 3 - arterial hypertension
- Senior-Loken syndrome 4 - arterial hypertension
- Senior-Loken syndrome 5 - arterial hypertension
- Senior-Loken syndrome 6 - arterial hypertension
- Serotonin Syndrome - high blood pressure
- Serotonin toxicity - high blood pressure
- Shaken Baby Syndrome - hypertension
- Silicosis - pulmonary hypertension
- Simple kidney cysts - high blood pressure
- Skull fracture - Hypertension
- Sleep apnea - pulmonary hypertension
- Sleep Apnea Syndromes - high blood pressure
- Sleep disorders - Systemic hypertension
- Sneddon Syndrome - high blood pressure
- Spastic paraplegia nephritis deafness - high blood pressure
- Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia -- nephritic syndrome - hypertension
- Steroid abuse - high blood pressure
- Stress - high blood pressure
- Stress-Induced Hypertension - high blood pressure
- Surfactant Metabolism Dysfunction - pulmonary hypertension
- Surfactant Metabolism Dysfunction, Pulmonary, 1 - pulmonary hypertension
- Surfactant Metabolism Dysfunction, Pulmonary, 2 - pulmonary hypertension
- Surfactant Metabolism Dysfunction, Pulmonary, 3 - pulmonary hypertension
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Takayasu arteritis - pulmonary hypertension
- Thieffry and Sorrell Dejerine syndrome - hypertension
- Thromboembolism - high blood pressure
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, acquired - high blood pressure
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, congenital - high blood pressure
- Toxemia of pregnancy
- Toxic mushrooms -- Psychedelic - hypertension
- Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome - arterial hypertension in recipient twin
- Tyrosinemia - hypertension
- Tyrosinemia Type I - Hypertension
- Unilateral pulmonary agenesis - pulmonary hypertension
- Upper spinal cord lesions
- Urinary tract infections - high blood pressure
- Urinary tract obstruction
- Variegate porphyria - hypertension
- Vascular disease
- Vasculitis - Hypertension
- Vasculitis hypersensitivity - Hypertension
- Vater-like syndrome, with pulmonary hypertension, abnormal ears and growth deficiency - pulmonary hypertension
- Vesicoureteral reflux - high blood pressure
- Vesicoureteral Reflux 1 - high blood pressure
- Vesicoureteral Reflux 2 - high blood pressure
- Viral vasculitis not HBV and HCV - high blood pressure
- Vitamin D -- adverse effects - hypertension
- Von Gierke disease IB - hypertension
- Wagener syndrome - hypertension
- Werner syndrome - hypertension
- Wilms' tumor - high blood pressure
- Wolfram's disease - blood hypertension
- Wolman disease - pulmonary hypertension
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All Causes of High blood pressure
The full list of all possible causes for High blood pressure described in various sources is as follows:
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Drug side effect causes of High blood pressure
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins
may possibly cause High blood pressure as a side effect.
See detailed list of 286
drug side effect causes of High blood pressure
Drug interaction causes of High blood pressure:
Drug interactions may be a possible cause of High blood pressure including:
- Buspirone and monoamine oxidase inhibitor antidepressant interaction
- BuSpar and monoamine oxidase inhibitor antidepressant interaction
- BuSpar Dividose and monoamine oxidase inhibitor antidepressant interaction
- Bumex and chloral hydrate interaction
- Edecrin and chloral hydrate interaction
- more drug causes...»
See detailed list of 262
drug interaction causes of High blood pressure
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