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This review provides an overview of the characteristics, diagnosis, risk factors, therapy, and prognosis of paediatric hypertension, which has a worldwide prevalence ranging from 1% to about 10%.
This review provides a comprehensive overview of the characteristics, diagnosis, risk factors, therapy, and prognosis of pediatric hypertension.
Paediatric hypertension warrants early screening; extends descriptive overview but leaves open optimal management pending higher-level evidence.
Hypertension can begin early in childhood, as occasional increases in blood pressure or abnormal blood pressure responses to physical or emotional stress. High blood pressure in juvenile age is defined as a blood pressure repeatedly above the 95th percentile of specific nomograms. Its worldwide prevalence ranges from 1% to about 10%. The purpose of this paper is to perform an overview about characteristics, diagnosis, risk factors, therapy, and prognosis of paediatric hypertension.
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Bassareo et al. (2015) conducted a review in Paediatric hypertension. This review provides an overview of the characteristics, diagnosis, risk factors, therapy, and prognosis of paediatric hypertension, which has a worldwide prevalence ranging from 1% to about 10%.
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