A recent monograph on childhood hypertension provides a lucid overview of the determinants of primary blood pressure elevation, including genetic, growth, behavioral, and nutritional factors.
The reviewed monograph provides an excellent perspective on the epidemiology and determinants of childhood hypertension.
In recent years an increasing interest has developed in blood pressure elevation in children and adolescents. This interest has resulted in a number of books on the subject, of which this monograph is the latest. The editors of this collection present some excellent discussion on the determinants of childhood hypertension and the importance of this problem. Information on both essential hypertension and a number of secondary forms of blood pressure elevation is included. The sections on essential hypertension are especially lucid. There are discussions of the determinants of primary blood pressure elevation including genetic, growth, behavioral, and nutritional factors. The first chapter, by the editors, is particularly well written. It gives an excellent perspective on the importance of the problem and an overview of some of the advances in research on the epidemiology of childhood hypertension. The chapters on secondary forms of blood pressure elevation are not as informative as
Samuel Kaplan (Fri,) conducted a review in Childhood hypertension. A recent monograph on childhood hypertension provides a lucid overview of the determinants of primary blood pressure elevation, including genetic, growth, behavioral, and nutritional factors.
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