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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about hypertension and death from hypertension.
Meaning of hypertension
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hypertension:
(a)          means persistently elevated blood pressure, where that persistent elevation in blood pressure has been diagnosed by a medical practitioner and evidenced by:
                (i)            a usual clinic blood pressure reading of greater than or equal to 140 mmHg systolic or greater than or equal to 90 mmHg diastolic, or equivalent levels using ambulatory blood pressure measurement; or
                (ii)         a usual home blood pressure reading of greater than or equal to 135 mmHg systolic or greater than or equal to 85 mmHg diastolic; or
                (iii)       for persons aged under 18 years, a usual systolic or diastolic blood pressure reading of greater than or equal to the 95th centile for age and sex; or
                (iv)        the regular administration of antihypertensive therapy to reduce blood pressure; and
(b)          excludes temporary elevations in blood pressure from conditions such as acute renal failure, neurogenic hypertension, eclampsia, pre-eclampsia, gestational hypertension and medications.
               Note: equivalent levels using ambulatory blood pressure measurement is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(3)          While hypertension attracts ICD‑10‑AM code I10 or I15, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of hypertension is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from hypertension
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, hypertension, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's hypertension.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.