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164 Finnish children and adolescents with persistent hypertension
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Cohort
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Suggests secondary causes may be curable in pediatric hypertension; leaves open optimal evaluation strategies pending prospective validation.
Secondary causes like renal disease and aortic coarctation are common in pediatric hypertension, and many are surgically curable, warranting thorough diagnostic evaluation.
Uhari et al. (1979) studied this question.
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