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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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Screen time and metabolic risk factors among adolescents.
TL;DR: Adolescent boys with ST of 2 or more hours per day on weekdays have twice the risk of abnormal levels of insulin and HOMA-IR compared with peers with ST less than 2 hours per weekdays, and these results suggest there is an increased risk of insulin resistance among adolescent boys who do not meet ST guidelines on week days.
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Impact of transcendental meditation on ambulatory blood pressure in African-American adolescents.
TL;DR: Greater decreases in daytime systolic BP and diastolic BP in the TM group compared with the control group across the visits demonstrate a beneficial impact of the TM program in youth at risk for the development of hypertension.
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Microalbuminuria and Abnormal Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Adolescents With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
TL;DR: As in adults, adolescents with T2DM exhibit abnormalities of ABP, dyslipidemia, and microalbuminuria as in adults.
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Blood pressure in sleep disordered breathing
TL;DR: BP in paediatric SDB patients is positively correlated with the degree of SDB, and age, BMI, and AHI were found to be significant predictor variables of the systolic BP index during REMS.
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Association of anthropometric indices with cardiovascular disease risk factors among children and adolescents: CASPIAN Study.
Roya Kelishadi,Riaz Gheiratmand,Gelayol Ardalan,Khosrow Adeli,Mohammad Mehdi Gouya,Emran Mohammad Razaghi,Reza Majdzadeh,Alireza Delavari,Keyvan Shariatinejad,Molouk Motaghian,Ramin Heshmat,Abtin Heidarzadeh,Hamed Barekati,Minoo Sadat Mahmoud-Arabi,Mohammad Mehdi Riazi +14 more
TL;DR: It may be clinically useful in the pediatric population to routinely measure WC and WSR in addition to BMI as a screening tool to identify high-risk youth.