What Are the Major Risk Factors for Essential Hypertension

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Essay

What are the major risk factors for essential hypertension?

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Definitions:

Cognitive Skills

Mental abilities essential for thinking, learning, and memory, including attention, problem solving, and decision making.

Dissociative Disorders

A cluster of psychiatric disorders defined by a separation and discontinuity among thinking patterns, memories, settings, activities, and sense of self.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

A severe form of dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memory, and sense of identity, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

Controversy

A prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention over differing opinions or viewpoints.