KMID : 4412620200260010022
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Clinical Hypertension 2020 Volume.26 No. 1 p.22 ~ p.22
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Pediatric hypertension: an updated review
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Ashraf Mohd
Irshad Mohd Parry Nazir Ahmed
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Abstract
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Globally hypertension in adults is among the leading preventable cause of premature death, where a graded association from the childhood hypertension is well recognised. With the concurrent rise in obesity and pediatric hypertension (HTN) during the past decade in developed countries, a parallel trend is emerging in developing countries that has a potential for exponential rise in cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and renal tragedies. A cumulative incidence of pediatric HTN in China and India is 50?70 and 23% respectively, is quite disturbing. New guidelines for the detection, evaluation and management of hypertension in children and adolescents published in 2017, where a jump in prevalence of pediatric HTN is observed, rings a call to address this under-attended burning problem; for which a review in pediatric hypertension and its management is warranted.
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KEYWORD
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Blood pressure, Children, Guidelines, Hypertension, Prevalence
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