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SUBMITTER: Hamdani G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7202372 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hamdani Gilad G Flynn Joseph T JT Becker Richard C RC Daniels Stephen R SR Falkner Bonita B Hanevold Coral D CD Ingelfinger Julie R JR Lande Marc B MB Martin Lisa J LJ Meyers Kevin E KE Mitsnefes Mark M Rosner Bernard B Samuels Joshua A JA Urbina Elaine M EM
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 20181001 4
Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring provides a more precise measure of BP status than clinic BP and is currently recommended in the evaluation of high BP in children and adolescents. However, ambulatory BP monitoring may not always be available. Our aim was to determine the clinic BP percentile most likely to predict ambulatory hypertension. We evaluated clinic and ambulatory BP in 247 adolescents (median age, 15.7 years; 63% white; 54% male). Clinic BP percentile (based on the fourth repo ...[more]