Please explain "significant hypertensive response"?

Question

i got it from an article about Red Wine Headache. Where Richard Mathies said that when he drank red wine it triggered a "significant hypertensive response". Now it got me puzzled 'cause wine helps the heart, how is it (in anyway) connected to any hypertensive response? thanx..

Answer 1

More context will be helpful -- for example, give us the whole sentence.

If you got this off a journal article (or abstract), most likely it was a study about blood pressure, and one group had a different mean blood pressure than the other(s).  

In this context, "significant" means when the groups were compared using a statistical test, the chance that the difference between groups arose by chance is less than 5% (0.05).  So, for example, at the end of the sentence you may see something like "p<0.01", saying that the possibility is less than 1%.

Obviously, the interpretation may be different if you got the phrase from somewhere else, hence the need for more context.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

It means that someone is responding to something with increased blood pressure - more detail would be helpful here!