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Original Source: Primary versus secondary hypertension in children followed up at an outpatient tertiary unit.
Childhood hypertension has classically been recognized as a secondary disease. However, primary hypertension also occurs in children. The aim of this study was to compare clinical features of pediatric patients with elevated blood pressure, which were referred to an outpatient tertiary unit, and to detect variables associated with the identification of primary hypertension. The records of 220 patients with hypertension followed between 1996 and 2006 were analyzed. The variable of interest was primary hypert...
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Aortic Stiffness and Incident Hypertension—Reply
In Reply: Dr Protogerou and colleagues raise 2 main questions. First, does the relationship between CFPWV and incident hypertension differ for isolated systolic hypertension, isolated diastolic hypert...
Hypertension and Metabolic Syndrome Cut With Workplace Program
According to researchers, the workplace is better suited for primary and secondary prevention, as many younger patients, including those with undetected hypertension and elevated cholesterol levels, a...
How can resistant hypertension be identified and prevented?
Resistant hypertension is difficult to treat. In a Perspectives, Solini and Ruilope argue that many patients with resistant hypertension actually have mismanaged primary hypertension. They discuss how...
Could Hypertension in Pregnancy Harm Child's Thinking Skills for Decades?
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 3 -- Children of women who suffer from high blood pressure -- or "hypertension" -- during pregnancy may pay a price even decades later, with new research suggesting these offspring sco...
Any Hypertension During Pregnancy Raises Risk for Several Chronic Diseases
Clinicians routinely watch for gestational hypertension and preeclampsia in pregnancy, common complications that can harm both mother and child. Yet isolated incidents of increased blood pressure in a...
Pregnant mother's blood pressure may affect future health of children
(University of Copenhagen) Up to 10 percent of all women experience some form of elevated blood pressure during pregnancy. Researchers from the Centre for Social Evolution at the University of Copenha...
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Detection and Treatment of Resistant Hypertension.
The evaluation of patients with resistant hypertension should be directed toward confirming true treatment resistance, identifying the causes contributing to treatment resistance (including secondary...
Secondary Hypertension: The Ways of Management.
The prevalence of secondary hypertension is lower than that of primary (essential) hypertension, but it is likely that it has been underestimated because appropriate tests were not generally performed...
Duration of lactation and incidence of maternal hypertension: a longitudinal cohort study.
Never or curtailed lactation has been associated with an increased risk for incident hypertension, but the effect of exclusive breastfeeding is unknown. The authors conducted an observational cohort s...
Prevalence of resistant hypertension in non-elderly adults: prospective study in a clinical setting.
BACKGROUND: In face of variable definitions and sampling criteria, the real prevalence of resistant hypertension in a clinical setting is unknown. OBJECTIVE: We investigated the prevalence of true res...
Primary versus secondary hypertension in children followed up at an outpatient tertiary unit.
Childhood hypertension has classically been recognized as a secondary disease. However, primary hypertension also occurs in children. The aim of this study was to compare clinical features of pediatri...
