-hypertension o high blood pressure?-
- -hypertension o high blood pressure?-
- Nota d'uso
Nell'inglese di tutti i giorni, quando si parla di ipertensione, normalmente non si usa la parola “hypertension”, ma l'espressione “high blood pressure”: Mio padre soffre di ipertensione, my father has got high blood pressure. Il sostantivo “hypertension” è utilizzato soprattutto in ambito medico-scientifico. Allo stesso modo, quando si parla di una persona ipertesa, normalmente non si usa la parola “hypertensive”: Il numero di ipertesi in Italia sta aumentando, in Italy increasing numbers of people have high blood pressure.
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