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What is Hypertensive heart disease? Heart disease caused directly or indirectly by high blood pressure. The heart has to work harder to cope with high ...more Â». Hypertensive heart disease: Heart disease that is caused by hypertension.
1 Hypertension is a blood pressure higher than 140 over 90 mmHg (millimeters of mercury). 2  One or both readings can be high, either the first, systolic reading (the pressure as the heart pumps blood around the body) or the diastolic one (as the heart relaxes and refills with blood). Hypertension itself does not cause symptoms but in the long-term leads to complications caused by narrowing of blood vessels. 2  Doctors diagnose high blood pressure over a number of visits using a sphygmomanometer, which involves applying an inflatable cuff to the upper arm.