Racial differences among children with primary hypertension

Pediatrics

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 931-937

  Brady, Tammy M ^a   Fivush, Barbara ^a   Parekh, Rulan S ^a,b   Flynn, Joseph T ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Blood pressure; Cardiovascular; Children; Ethnicity; Obesity; Primary hypertension; Race

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; RENIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049420521     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-2972     Document Type: Article

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