Control of Hypertension in Treated Children and Its Association With Target Organ Damage

195 children on antihypertensive therapy who underwent ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), mean age 13.6 ± 4.0 years. Etiologies included renoparenchymal HT (n=132), primary HT (n=29), renovascular HT (n=10), endocrine HT (n=10), cardiovascular HT (n=4), and other forms (n=5).

Antihypertensive therapy (including ACE inhibitors and calcium-channel blockers)

Uncontrolled hypertension vs controlled hypertension; ACE inhibitor monotherapy vs calcium-channel blocker monotherapy

Control of hypertension (defined as systolic and diastolic BP index <1.0 at daytime and nighttime, or BP load <25%)surrogate