To the Editor: In her article on pediatric hypertension, Ingelfinger does not mention the role of uric acid and hyperuricemia.Randomized trials have shown the benefits of urate-lowering treatment in lowering blood pressure in adolescents with hyperuricemia and recently diagnosed essential hypertension 1 and in obese adolescents with prehypertension.
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