Important: VAERS reports alone cannot determine if a vaccine caused an adverse event. Reports may contain incomplete, inaccurate, or unverified information. Correlation does not equal causation.
Hypertension appears in 13,161 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 290 reports also mentioned death and 2,894 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 24.2%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are COVID-19, Flu (Trivalent), Hepatitis B. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Hypertension has been reported 13,161 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 290 were associated with death (2.20%) and 2,894 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Hypertension is 24.2%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.