Blood pressure screening in children and adolescents: Is the glass half empty or more than half full?

JAMA Pediatrics

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 302-304

  Daniels, Stephen R ^a   Gidding, Samuel S ^a  

^a Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 84874928333     PISSN: 21686203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.439     Document Type: Review

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