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Hypertension is an elevated blood pressure which arises as a result of a number of haemodynamic changes. Ageing can also leads to elevated blood pressure. This chapter will consider hypertension and the effect of ageing on blood pressure.

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  1. Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK

    Peter R. Hoskins

  2. Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

    Ian B. Wilkinson

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  1. University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Queens Medical Research Institute , Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Peter R. Hoskins

  2. University of Sheffield, Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease/Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicin, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Patricia V. Lawford

  3. School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, West Australia, Australia

    Barry J. Doyle

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Hoskins, P.R., Wilkinson, I.B. (2017). Hypertension. In: Hoskins, P., Lawford, P., Doyle, B. (eds) Cardiovascular Biomechanics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46407-7_14

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