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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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Comparison of blood pressure measurements in children with and without habitual snoring.
Athanasios G. Kaditis,Emmanouel I. Alexopoulos,Eleni Kostadima,Dimitrios G. Kaditis,Chaido Pastaka,Elias Zintzaras,Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis +6 more
TL;DR: In a community sample of children, habitual snorers do not have higher morning systolic or diastolic blood pressure than nonhabitual snorers and age, gender, and body mass index but not snoring were significant predictors of diastolics blood pressure.
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Prevalence of arterial hypertension among Brazilian adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysis
Erika da Silva Magliano,Luciane Gaspar Guedes,Evandro Silva Freire Coutinho,Katia Vergetti Bloch +3 more
TL;DR: The pooled prevalence found in both males and females shows that systemic arterial hypertension should be monitored in the population aged 10–20 years and that specific measures are required to prevent and control the disease, as well as its risk factors.
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Blood pressure distribution in a Hungarian adolescent population: comparison with normal values in the USA.
Dénes Páll,Éva Katona,Béla Fülesdi,Miklós Zrínyi,János Zatik,Dániel Bereczki,Polgár P,György Kakuk +7 more
TL;DR: The findings demonstrate the influence of geographical and ethnic variations on blood pressure and acceptance and use of non-population-specific blood pressure distributions may lead to under- or overdiagnosis of adolescent hypertension.
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Three paediatric patients with reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndromes.
TL;DR: It is suggested that RCVS should be considered in paediatric patients if they present with a history of multiple attacks of thunderclap headache, and the efficacy of calcium channel blockers was variable in these three boys.
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Hypertension and pregnancy-related hypertension
TL;DR: The diagnosis, manifestations, mechanisms, and management of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy is discussed and the current data on preventive strategies are reviewed.