Population
278 children with serial blood pressure recorded between ages 9 to 18 years, with a subset of 93 followed up…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
From age 9 to age 30 +/- 5.0 years
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BP trajectories from ages 9-18 may inform adult hypertension risk; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Children with higher blood pressure levels at age 9 and rapid increases during pubescence may have an increased risk of adult hypertension.
Woynarowska et al. (1985) studied this question.
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