Hypertensive heart disease includes a number of complications of
high blood pressure that affect the
heart. While there are several definitions of hypertensive heart disease in the medical literature, the term is most widely used in the context of the
International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding categories. The definition includes
heart failure and other cardiac complications of hypertension when a causal relationship between the heart disease and hypertension is stated or implied on the
death certificate.