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The national high blood pressure education program.
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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.read more
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The investigation and management of hypertension
TL;DR: Childhood hypertension is relatively common, the prevalence is approximately the same as diabetes mellitis, and in childhood there may be the opportunity for cure by means of surgery or interventional radiology.
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Obesidad infantil y dislipidemia
TL;DR: Screening and treatment of plasma lipid abnormalities secondary to obe-sity are among the interventions that should be implemented in children who are overweighed by their parents.
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Treatment strategies to prevent stroke: focus on optimal lipid and blood pressure control.
TL;DR: Effective interventions for optimal stroke prevention are discussed, with an emphasis on effective antihypertensive and lipid lowering therapy.
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Prevention of essential hypertension in minority populations.
Bruce S. Alpert,Marie Barnard +1 more
TL;DR: Investigations are underway to discover the mechanism(s) of the excessive vasoconstriction which appears to be characteristic of the CVR responses in Blacks, which may lead to the pharmacologic, or non-pharmacologic, interventions which may be initiated in childhood and prevent EH in adults.