What defines an adolescent as having hypertension?

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-14

  Materson, Barry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUNGARY; HYPERTENSION; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0037248439     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004872-200301000-00003     Document Type: Note

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