Hypertension

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This topic covers high blood pressure and its effect on the kidneys, including hypertension-induced nephropathy.

- "Hypertensive kidney disease is a medical condition referring to damage to the kidney due to chronic high blood pressure."
- "It manifests as hypertensive nephrosclerosis (sclerosis referring to the stiffening of renal components)."
- "It should be distinguished from renovascular hypertension, which is a form of secondary hypertension, and thus has opposite direction of causation."
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- "Nephrosclerosis (sclerosis referring to the stiffening of renal components)."
- "damage to the kidney due to chronic high blood pressure."
- "renovascular hypertension... has opposite direction of causation."
- "sclerosis referring to the stiffening of renal components."
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