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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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Obesity Hypertension in Children. A Problem of Epidemic Proportions
TL;DR: Obesity in childhood should be considered a chronic medical condition that is likely to require long-term management and prevention of obesity and its complications, including hypertension, is the goal.
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Recommendations for Blood Pressure Measurement in Humans and Experimental Animals: Part 1: Blood Pressure Measurement in Humans: A Statement for Professionals From the Subcommittee of Professional and Public Education of the American Heart Association Council on High Blood Pressure Research
Thomas G. Pickering,John E. Hall,Lawrence J. Appel,Bonita Falkner,John W. Graves,Martha N. Hill,Daniel W. Jones,Theodore W. Kurtz,Sheldon G. Sheps,Edward J. Roccella +9 more
TL;DR: It is increasingly recognized that office measurements correlate poorly with blood pressure measured in other settings, and that they can be supplemented by self-measured readings taken with validated devices at home, which gives a better prediction of risk than office measurements and is useful for diagnosing white-coat hypertension.
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American Heart Association Guidelines for Primary Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Beginning in Childhood
Rae-Ellen W. Kavey,Stephen R. Daniels,Ronald M. Lauer,Dianne L. Atkins,Laura L. Hayman,Kathryn A. Taubert +5 more
TL;DR: Findings from the Bogalusa study indicate that as the number of cardiovascular risk factors increases, so does the pathological evidence for atherosclerosis in the aorta and coronary arteries beginning in early childhood.
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Incidence and Prognosis of Resistant Hypertension in Hypertensive Patients
Stacie L. Daugherty,J. David Powers,David J. Magid,Heather M. Tavel,Frederick A. Masoudi,Karen L. Margolis,Patrick J. O'Connor,Joe V. Selby,P. Michael Ho +8 more
TL;DR: Patients with resistant hypertension had an increased risk of cardiovascular events, which supports the need for greater efforts toward improving hypertension outcomes in this population.
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Dominant and recessive inheritance of morbid obesity associated with melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency
I. Sadaf Farooqi,Giles S.H. Yeo,Julia M. Keogh,Shiva Aminian,Susan A. Jebb,Gary Butler,Tim Cheetham,Stephen O'Rahilly +7 more
TL;DR: The nucleotide sequence of the entire coding region of the MC4R gene is determined in 243 subjects with severe, early-onset obesity, resulting in a syndrome of hyperphagic obesity in humans that can present with either dominant or recessive patterns of inheritance.