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SUBMITTER: Mendizabal B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6202222 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 20180901 3
Although hypertension is identifiable in children and adolescents, there are many knowledge gaps on how to best define and manage high blood pressure in the young. SHIP-AHOY (Study of High Blood Pressure in Pediatrics: Adult Hypertension Onset in Youth) is being conducted to address these knowledge gaps. Five hundred adolescents will be recruited and will undergo ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, echocardiographic, vascular, and cognitive assessments, as well as epigenetic studies to identif ...[more]