Key result
Correct blood pressure measurement, including appropriate devices, regulated procedures, and interpretation based on age, gender, and height percentiles, is essential for evaluating arterial hypertension in children.
Why the study?
Despite recent advances, the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of high blood pressure in children and adolescents still have room for improvement.
Accurate blood pressure measurement and percentile-based interpretation are critical for managing arterial hypertension in pediatric populations, aided by accessible online calculators.
Supports early pediatric hypertension screening; leaves open optimal long-term strategies from higher-level trials.
Arterial hypertension is the main modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, occupying the first place among the causes of loss of life years adjusted for disability. In recent years, arterial hypertension in children and adolescents has gained ground in cardiovascular medicine thanks to progress made in several areas, fundamentally in pathophysiological and clinical research. Despite the advances that have been made in recent years, the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure in children and adolescents still have room for improvement. In this sense, the correct measurement of blood pressure is especially important, since it includes a series of essential elements such as the measurement devices, the regulated procedure and the interpretation of the results based on percentiles according to age, gender and height. The availability of a free access calculator facilitates the diagnosis and monitoring of arterial hypertension https://hyperchildnet.eu/. La hipertensión arterial es el principal factor de riesgo modificable para la enfermedad cardiovascular ocupando el primer lugar entre las causas de pérdida de años de vida ajustados por discapacidad. En los últimos años la hipertensión arterial en niños y adolescentes ha ganado terreno en la medicina cardiovascular gracias a los avances en diversas áreas de la investigación fundamentalmente fisiopatológica y clínica. A pesar de los avances que se han llevado a cabo en los últimos años, la prevención, diagnóstico y tratamiento de la hipertensión arterial en niños y adolescentes todavía son susceptibles de mejorar. En este sentido cobra especial relevancia la medida correcta de la presión arterial que contempla una serie de elementos indispensables como son los dispositivos de medición, el procedimiento reglado y la interpretación de los resultados en base a percentiles según edad, sexo y talla. La disponibilidad de una calculadora de acceso libre facilita el diagnóstico y seguimiento de la hipertensión arterial https://hyperchildnet.eu/.
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Álvarez‐Pitti et al. (2022) conducted a review in Arterial hypertension. Blood pressure measurement was evaluated. Correct blood pressure measurement, including appropriate devices, regulated procedures, and interpretation based on age, gender, and height percentiles, is essential for evaluating arterial hypertension in children.
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