Population
27,820 subjects from 29 independent studies assessing blood pressure tracking from childhood to adulthood
Design
Meta-analysis
Follow-up
up to 10-20 years
Authors
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Modest BP tracking supports regular childhood monitoring; reinforces low-to-moderate stability and need for larger long-term trials.
Blood pressure tracking from childhood to adulthood is low-to-moderate, indicating the need for regular BP monitoring in children and larger sample sizes for long-term intervention trials.
Toschke et al. (2009) studied this question.
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