Essential hypertension, defined as high blood pressure without an obvious cause, accounts for the majority of hypertension cases.

“in medical school we learn about this term called essential hypertension which is kind of a wastebasket term for hypertension or high blood pressure for which we don't have an obvious cause the problem is and so having sort of that waste basket term would be okay if it accounted for the minority of cases but then you get to the clinic and you realize everybody walking around with high blood pressure basically is getting labeled as having quote unquote essential hypertension”