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The national high blood pressure education program.

John B. Stokes
- 01 Apr 1974 - 
- Vol. 14, Iss: 4, pp 172-176
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This article is published in Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association.The article was published on 1974-04-01. It has received 1110 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health education.

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Lipid profile and anthropometrical evaluation in type 1 diabetes

TL;DR: The conventional methods for detecting lipids alterations in outpatients with type 1 diabetes under routine care are not sufficient to identify the lipid alterations, which could be related to the higher risk of cardiovascular disease in adult population.
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Antihypertensive agents: mechanisms of action, safety profiles, and current uses in children

TL;DR: The individual classes of antihypertensive medications as they are used in children are reviewed, highlighting their proposed mechanisms of action, common adverse effects, and, when available, a summary of the published pediatric data.
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Randomized, controlled trial of dexamethasone in neonatal chronic lung disease: 13- to 17-year follow-up study: II. Respiratory status, growth, and blood pressure.

TL;DR: There is no evidence that dexamethasone use is associated with long-term improvement in lung function, and impaired growth and poor health status are long- term consequences of neonatal chronic lung disease, irrespective of exposure to neonatal dexamETHasone.
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Early Left Ventricular Abnormalities in Children with Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that hypercholesterolemia is associated with significant LV morphologic and functional alterations during childhood and the potential benefits and risks of such treatment at a young age need to be addressed in larger long-term studies.
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Temporal stability of twenty-four-hour ambulatory hemodynamic bioimpedance measures in African American adolescents

TL;DR: The findings demonstrate that across 2 months in youth daytime and night-time ambulatory bioimpedance-derived measures of HR, HI, SBP, DBP and MAP are highly repeatable and SV, CO, PEP and LVET are moderately repeatable.