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R03.0

Elevated blood-pressure reading, without diagnosis of hypertension

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R03R03.0

Chapter: 18. Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified

Section: R00-R09 - Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems

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Notes

This category is to be used to record an episode of elevated blood pressure in a patient in whom no formal diagnosis of hypertension has been made, or as an isolated incidental finding.

Related Codes

Nonspecific low blood-pressure reading

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