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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring highlights the importance of circadian variation, including nocturnal hypertension and dipping, in diagnosing and treating childhood hypertension.
Highlights the increasing importance of understanding nocturnal blood pressure variation and dipping in pediatric hypertension management.
Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring, when available, is now the standard of care in diagnosing and treating childhood hypertension. With this, increasing focus is being placed upon the importance of circadian variation in BP and previously difficult to observe phenomena, including nocturnal hypertension and dipping. What are we to make of ambulatory BP monitoring reports relating to these components, such as “isolated nocturnal hypertension” or “inadequate nocturnal dipping”?
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Nicholas Larkins (2022) conducted an editorial in Childhood hypertension. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was evaluated. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring highlights the importance of circadian variation, including nocturnal hypertension and dipping, in diagnosing and treating childhood hypertension.
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