Journal
CURRENT HYPERTENSION REPORTS
Volume 21, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-019-0958-3
Keywords
Pediatric hypertension; Echocardiography; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Left atrial dilation; Strain; Pulse wave velocity; Carotid intimal-medial thickness
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Purpose of ReviewPediatric hypertension is relatively common and associated with future adult hypertension. Elevated blood pressure in youth predicts future adult cardiovascular disease and blood pressure control can prevent progression of pediatric kidney disease. However, pediatric blood pressure is highly variable within a given child and among children in a population.Recent FindingsTherefore, modalities to index aggregate and cumulative blood pressure status are of potential benefit in identifying youth in danger of progression from a risk factor of subclinical phenotypic alteration to clinically apparent event.SummaryIn this review, we advocate for the health risk stratification roles of echocardiographically assessed cardiac remodeling, arterial stiffness assessment, and assessment by ultrasound of arterial thickening in children and adolescents with hypertension.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available