What question did this study set out to answer?

To assess age-related variations in systolic and diastolic blood pressure and determine the incidence of hypertension among school-aged youth compared with young adult males.

July 1, 1977Acta Paediatrica

Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents

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4,428 children and adolescents aged 7 to 18 years randomly selected from Elementary and High Schools, and…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

CCC.D. CassimosMedical College of Wisconsin GVGeorge VarlamisAristotle University of Thessaloniki SKStergios KaramperisAristotle University of Thessaloniki

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Implication

Supports age-stratified BP assessment in youth; leaves open long-term cardiovascular implications.

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To assess age-related variations in systolic and diastolic blood pressure and determine the incidence of hypertension among school-aged youth compared with young adult males.
Randomly selected 4,428 school-aged youth (2,223 males and 2,205 females aged 7–18 years) and enrolled 521 male adult soldiers aged 21–25 years.
Defined suspect hypertension as blood pressure within the 90th to 95th percentile and definite hypertension as exceeding the 95th percentile.
Systolic and diastolic blood pressure increased progressively with age from 7 to 18 years, whereas no age-related increase was observed in young adult males.
The overall incidence of hypertension among children and adolescents was 3.1%.

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Population

4,428 children and adolescents (2,223 male, 2,205 female) aged 7 to 18 years randomly selected from Elementary and High Schools, and 521 male adults (soldiers) aged 21 to 25 years.

Outcome

Blood pressure levels and incidence of hypertensionsurrogate

Blood pressure gradually increases with age from 7 to 18 years, with an overall hypertension incidence of 3.1% in this pediatric population.

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Cassimos et al. (1977) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7154f635aa2c282ce2a3c5 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1651-2227.1977.tb07924.x

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Hypertension management

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