Nearly half of adults with hypertension (HTN) are not aware of their diagnosis. But recognition is even worse in pediatric patients. Abbas H. Zaidi, MD “Less than 25% of children with hypertension get ...

The 2004 NHBPEP report provided updated normative data for systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP/DBP) in children. These data now define pre-hypertension (Pre-HTN) as well as HTN for gender, age, ...

High blood pressure in children and adolescents is a growing problem in all corners of the world, an updated look at global data shows. Overall, the pooled prevalence of pediatric hypertension based ...

Pediatric hypertension and prehypertension are largely undiagnosed, and clinicians do not routinely follow diagnosis and medication management guidelines, according to a retrospective cohort study of ...

Pediatric hypertension is linked to long-term cardiovascular risks, necessitating accurate diagnosis through repeated blood pressure measurements. Global prevalence of sustained hypertension in ...

The 2017 guidelines identified a group of children whose CV risk may have been underestimated using older guidelines. The 2017 guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure (BP) in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hypertension was more often diagnosed from a single measurement vs. serial readings among children and ...

SAN DIEGO -- An effort to better characterize the epidemiology of youth with hypertension disorders pointed to primary hypertension as the dominant etiology in older children and those with worse ...

Hypertension risk elevated in obese kids Obese children and teens have a significantly greater risk for developing hypertension compared with normal weight peers. Obese children and teens have a ...

Why Is Hypertension On The Rise Among Children? Let us first attempt to understand what are the reasons that led to this hypertension boom among children and teens globally. Dr Khan lists down several ...