title: [Arterial hypertension--multicirculus vitiosus vasorum].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this review is to address documents and a number of studies on hypertension published in the last years in order to assess their contribution to our expanding knowledge of arterial hypertension.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Arterial hypertension is not defined by symptoms and signs but by numbers of blood pressure values. Arterial hypertension is vascular disease (vascular risk factor) of many vascular diseases (atherosclerosis; arteriolosclerosis/arteriolonecrosis/arteriolocalcinosis; arterial thrombosis; arterial embolism; arterial thromboembolism; arterial dissection; complicated arterial aneurysm) and other.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Arterial hypertension is cause and consequence of functional (endothelial dysfunction) and of structural organovascular injury (multiorganomultivascular disease). Blood vessels are culprits, implements and victims of arterial hypertension and of organovascular arterial diseases.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gavorník
authors.forename: Andrej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dukát
authors.forename: L'udovít
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gašpar
authors.forename: Nad'a
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hucková
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Slezáková
authors.forename: Katarina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kusendová
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gubo
authors.forename: Denisa
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Medová
authors.forename: Xénia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Faktorová
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gavorníková
mesh_terms: D000783:Aneurysm / Q000453:epidemiology*; D050197:Atherosclerosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001794:Blood Pressure; D004617:Embolism / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D061205:Vascular Calcification / Q000453:epidemiology*