Evaluation of pediatric patients with mild-to-moderate hypertension: Yield of diagnostic testing

Pediatrics

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Wiesen, Jonathan ^a   Adkins, Matthew ^a   Fortune, Sherwin ^a   Horowitz, Judah ^a   Pincus, Nava ^a   Frank, Rachel ^a   Vento, Suzanne ^a   Hoffman, Cathy ^a   Goilav, Beatrice ^a   Trachtman, Howard ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SCHNEIDER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Echocardiogram; Essential hypertension; Lipid profile; Metabolic syndrome

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; URINALYSIS; ADULT; BLOOD; COMORBIDITY; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINALYSIS;

EID: 58149162859     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-0365     Document Type: Article

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