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While early treatment of hypertension prevents adverse cardiovascular effects, tracking and managing children with elevated blood pressure poses serious risks of overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
Since the adverse effects of hypertension on cardiovascular function can in large measure be prevented by treatment it would seem logical to identify, early in life, persons who are at risk of becoming hypertensive. But tracking and managing children found to have elevated blood pressure pose a serious risk of overdiagnosis and overtreatment, with subsequent deleterious effects.
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