The Phase Gate Review methodology improves project effectiveness by reviewing all stages of the project from the initial selection process through the entire process of development to the final stages of closure.
Systemic hypertension, or high blood pressure, is associated with hypertensive vascular disease and is a problem that is widespread. The term systemic distinguishes the condition from a local high blood pressure as in pulmonary (lung) or portal hypertension (hepatic portal system).
Conceptually, it is useful to think of patients with hypertension as having either essential hypertension (systemic hypertension of unknown cause) or secondary hypertension (hypertension that results from an underlying, identifiable, often correctable cause).1 Although only about 5 to 10 percent of hypertension cases are thought to result from ...