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essential hypertension

hypertension with no known cause, the most common type of hypertension
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q988405
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Summary

essential hypertension is a class of disease[1]. It draws 981 Wikipedia views per month (class of disease category, ranking #561 of 1,968).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: arterial hypertension[3]
  • Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[4]
  • ICD-9-CM: 401[5], 401.9[6]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C3478[7]
  • Health specialty: cardiology[8]
  • Drug or therapy used for treatment: antihypertensive drug[9]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_10825[10], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:10825[11], http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_243761[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[13]

Why It Matters

essential hypertension has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

cardiology disease

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16d ago · فيصل · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)"
  2. 14w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → arterial hypertension
    Health specialty → cardiology
    Drug or therapy used for treatment → antihypertensive drug
    Subclass of → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
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