Why the study?
Does 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring better detect blood pressure differences in normotensive adolescents with a family history of hypertension compared to standard resting measurements?
Population
Normotensive adolescents divided into two groups: cases and controls.
Comparison
24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring… vs Standard resting blood pressure measurements.
Design
Case-control
Authors
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May identify early differences via ambulatory monitoring in adolescents with familial hypertension risk; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Does 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring better detect blood pressure differences in normotensive adolescents with a family history of hypertension compared to standard resting measurements?
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, particularly diastolic pressure during school hours, is superior to standard resting measurements for detecting early blood pressure differences in normotensive adolescents with a family history of hypertension.
Wilson et al. (1988) studied this question.
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