Journal of Hypertension: Open Access

Consultant Geriatric Services and Parkinson’s Disease Support Group, Pune, India

Publications

• Review Article   
  Prehypertension in Adolescent Children
  Author(s): Sunil Natha Mhaske* and Sharadini Dahanukar
  
  Hypertension in adolescent children was very much ignored and not considered a major issue in the past but fortunately in the recent years, it has gradually become a source of concern especially as children are known to maintain and the predictor of their blood pressures into adulthood. In the year 2004, National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents recommended a new designation of pre-hypertension for children with mildly elevated blood pressure. Epidemiological transition with increasing prevalence of Cardiac risk factors is evident in adults as well as in children. The foundations of Raised blood pressure in the adult are laid in child age and in adolescence period. The phenomenon of tracking or follow up of blood pressure directs that children and adolescents are in a raised blood pressure category tend to all in th.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2167-1095.2020.9.262

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