Key result
Overweight, obesity, low birth weight, and prematurity are major determinants of high blood pressure in children, requiring evaluation with ambulatory monitoring and target organ assessment.
Highlights the importance of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and novel techniques for assessing target organ damage in pediatric hypertension.
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Supports risk-stratified evaluation in high-risk youth; leaves open prospective validation of monitoring protocols.
Sinha et al. (2007) conducted a review in Hypertension in children and adolescents. Overweight, obesity, low birth weight, and prematurity are major determinants of high blood pressure in children, requiring evaluation with ambulatory monitoring and target organ assessment.
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