Is pulse pressure widening hypertension?

Pulse pressure widening is not necessarily hypertension.

Pulse pressure refers to the difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Hypertension can cause damage and inflammation in the inner layer of the blood vessel wall, resulting in thickening and hardening of the blood vessel wall, causing the blood vessel to lose its original elasticity. Vascular resistance increases, thus increasing pulse pressure. Second, with left ventricular dysfunction, myocardial disease and other heart diseases, will lead to reduced cardiac output, resulting in increased pulse pressure. So this manifestation alone is not necessarily hypertension.