Population
163 healthy school children
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Posture may influence pediatric BP-hemodynamic correlations; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
In healthy children, posture influences the relationship between blood pressure and flow velocity, and systemic blood pressure influences pulmonary hemodynamics and left ventricular mass development.
Watanabe et al. (1990) studied this question.
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