Population
237,248 youths aged 6 to 17 years without indication of secondary hypertension in a real-world managed care…
Design
Cross-sectional
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Alerts to substantial prehypertension burden in youths; leaves open prospective studies on progression and outcomes.
A large real-world cross-sectional study found that 31.4% of youths had prehypertension and 2.1% had hypertension, indicating a substantial burden of elevated blood pressure in pediatric populations.
Koebnick et al. (2013) studied this question.
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