Why the study?
Does mass blood pressure screening accurately identify sustained hypertension in high school students?
Population
Dallas high school students in the tenth grade
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
at least 3 years
Authors
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Low PPV of mass BP screening indicates frequent false positives in adolescents; leaves open whether targeted clinical protocols improve sustained hypertension detection.
Does mass blood pressure screening accurately identify sustained hypertension in high school students?
Mass blood pressure screening in children yields a high proportion of false-positive results and low predictive value, suggesting that hypertension case finding should remain in the clinical setting.
Fixler et al. (1983) studied this question.
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