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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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Associations among obesity, blood pressure, and left ventricular mass.
Albane B.R. Maggio,Yacine Aggoun,Laetitia M. Marchand,Xavier Martin,François Herrmann,Maurice Beghetti,Nathalie Farpour-Lambert +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that prevention and treatment of childhood obesity should be initiated as early as possible to prevent the premature development of hypertension and end-stage organ damage.
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Effect of Obesity and High Blood Pressure on Plasma Lipid Levels in Children and Adolescents
TL;DR: The high prevalence of dyslipidemia found in this overweight sample supports recent recommendations to collect plasma lipid levels in not only overweight children with BP ≥90th percentile but also in all overweight children.
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Intima-media thickness and arterial elasticity in hypertensive children: controlled study.
Mieczysław Litwin,Justyna Trelewicz,Zbigniew T. Wawer,Jolanta Antoniewicz,Aldona Wierzbicka,Pawel Rajszys,Ryszard Grenda +6 more
TL;DR: In newly diagnosed children with essential hypertension, functional and anatomical changes in elastic and muscular arteries are observed and Pulse pressure and biochemical risk factors for cardiovascular damage were predictors of vessel wall injury, even if it remained within the normal range.
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High incidence of initial and late steroid resistance in childhood nephrotic syndrome
Jung Sue Kim,Christine A. Bellew,Douglas M. Silverstein,Diego H. Aviles,Frank G. Boineau,V. Matti Vehaskari +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that in the current era, nephrotic syndrome in children may not be as benign as indicated by earlier studies, and a higher incidence of initial and subsequent steroid resistance is shown.
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Impact of stress reduction on negative school behavior in adolescents.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the Transcendental Meditation program conducted in the school setting has a beneficial impact upon absenteeism, rule infractions, and suspension rates in African American adolescents.