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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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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring after renal transplantation in children.
TL;DR: It is suggested that hypertension is not always associated with cardiac hypertrophy following pediatric renal transplantation, and patients taking antihypertensive medication had more abnormal dipping and greater nighttime BP load.
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Blood pressure regulation, autonomic control and sleep disordered breathing in children
TL;DR: There is mounting evidence that the cardiovascular and autonomic consequences of SDB are not limited to those with OSA, but are also evident in children with PS, and the severity of disease and age of onset of autonomic consequence may be important guides for the treatment ofSDB.
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Obstructive sleep-disordered breathing and fasting insulin levels in nonobese children.
Athanasios G. Kaditis,Emmanouel I. Alexopoulos,Eleni Damani,Ioanna Karadonta,Eleni Kostadima,Alexandra Tsolakidou,Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis,George A. Syrogiannopoulos +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, a positive correlation of severity of sleep-disordered breathing with morning fasting insulin levels, which is independent of obesity, was reported in adults and obese children, and the HOMA index was calculated.
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Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in schoolchildren in a rural Georgia community.
Catherine L. Davis,Brent Flickinger,Donna B Moore,Reda Bassali,Suzanne Domel Baxter,Zenong Yin +5 more
TL;DR: Results from this study indicate a significant problem with overweight and cardiovascular risk in rural schoolchildren, and younger children were just as likely to have risk factors as adolescents, suggesting that screening and intervention ought to begin by school age.
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Effect of Birth Weight on Blood Pressure and Body Size in Early Adolescence
TL;DR: The results do not support the low-birth-weight theory and indicate that childhood factors that are more proximal have a greater effect on adolescent BP than intrauterine factors.