| Ambulatory and home blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents: diagnosis of hypertension and assessment of target-organ damage. | |
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PMID: 23344131 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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The prevalence of elevated blood pressure in children and adolescents is more common than previously believed and often represents the early onset of essential hypertension, particularly in adolescents. The definition of hypertension in children is based on distribution criteria and normalcy tables that provide blood pressure percentiles for each measurement method (office, ambulatory and home) according to the individual's age, gender and body size. Owing to the white coat and masked hypertension phenomena, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is indispensable for the diagnosis of hypertension in children. Home blood pressure monitoring in children has been less well studied, and at present, treatment decisions should not be based solely on such measurements. Hypertension-induced preclinical target-organ damage (mainly echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy) is not uncommon in children and should be evaluated in all hypertensive children. Other indices of target-organ damage, such as carotid intima-media thickness, pulse wave velocity and microalbuminuria, remain under investigation in pediatric hypertension.Hypertension Research advance online publication, 24 January 2013; doi:10.1038/hr.2012.220. |
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Nikos Karpettas; Efthimia Nasothimiou; Anastasios Kollias; Adriani Vazeou; George S Stergiou |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2013-1-24 |
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Title: Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension Volume: - ISSN: 1348-4214 ISO Abbreviation: Hypertens. Res. Publication Date: 2013 Jan |
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Created Date: 2013-1-24 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9307690 Medline TA: Hypertens Res Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Hypertension Center, Third University Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece. |
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