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HYPERTENSION
Volume 75, Issue 5, Pages 1142-1150Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.119.14059
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Hypertension is a condition with increased risk for subsequent adverse events, and treatment of hypertension is prescribed for primary prevention of adverse events. Primordial prevention is a concept that precedes primary prevention and focuses on risk factor prevention. Primordial prevention of hypertension consists of strategies to maintain blood pressure in a normal range and prevent development of elevated blood pressure or hypertension. Childhood is a period in which primordial prevention could be effective and if sustained throughout childhood could contribute to a healthier young adulthood. Targets for primordial prevention in childhood include preventing and reducing childhood obesity, achieving an optimal diet that includes avoiding excessive salt consumption, and removing barriers to physical activity and healthy sleep throughout childhood. Primordial prevention also includes the prenatal period wherein some maternal conditions and exposures are associated with higher blood pressure in child offspring.
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