Key result
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring revealed that among children and adolescents with suspected hypertension, 72.5% had true hypertension and 14% had white coat hypertension.
Why the study?
What is the clinical usefulness of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents?
Observational (n=51)
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What is the clinical usefulness of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents?
Absolute Event Rate: 88.4% vs 25.5%
p-value: p=<0.001
This study aimed to assess the clinical usefulness of ABPM in Korean children and adolescents, though results are not fully reported in the abstract.
Purpose: With increasing prevalence of hypertension (HTN) in children and adolescent, pediatricians have become more interested in blood pressure (BP) measurements. The ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is known to be useful to differentiate true HTN and white coat HTN. The object of this study is to assess the clinical usefulness of ABPM in Korean children and adolescents. Methods: A retrospective review of 51 patients in Kyungpook National University Hospital from January 2002 to February 2010 was done. All patients were 6-18 years old and underwent ABPM. We calculated the mean value of ABP, BP load, nocturnal dip and compared the results with the patients' diagnosis and characteristics. Results: The mean age of the 51 patients was 17.8 1.8 years and 19 children were obese.
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Hwang et al. (2011) conducted an observational in Hypertension (n=51). Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was evaluated on Mean systolic blood pressure load (True HTN vs Normal BP) (p=<0.001). Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring revealed that among children and adolescents with suspected hypertension, 72.5% had true hypertension and 14% had white coat hypertension.
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