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January 1, 1983Annals of Internal Medicine

Cardiac Status in Juvenile Borderline Hypertension

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Why the study?

Does borderline hypertension associate with early echocardiographic cardiovascular changes in children compared to normotensive controls?

Population

53 children, including 27 with borderline hypertension and 26 controls.

Design

Cohort

Authors

WCWalter S. CulpepperTulane University

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Implication

Echocardiography may detect early LV changes in children with borderline hypertension; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before screening.

Structured PICO

Does borderline hypertension associate with early echocardiographic cardiovascular changes in children compared to normotensive controls?

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Population
53 children, including 27 with borderline hypertension (blood pressures between the 75th and 95th percentiles for age) and 26 controls.
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Comparator
Normotensive controls
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Outcome
Early cardiovascular changes including left ventricular wall thickness, left ventricular mass, and left ventricular wall thickness to radius ratio measured by M-mode echocardiographysurrogate

Cardiac hypertrophy can be detected noninvasively by echocardiography in children with borderline hypertension before arterial pressure becomes overtly elevated.

Cite This Study

Walter S. Culpepper (1983) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7d846dd491aa75eb14fe01https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-98-1-1

Topics

Hypertension managementEchocardiography
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