Screening children for high blood pressure: Where the US preventive services task force went wrong

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 526-527

  Samuels, Joshua A ^a   Bell, Cynthia ^a   Flynn, Joseph T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; EDITORIAL; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; UNITED STATES;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 84880727056     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jch.12147     Document Type: Editorial

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