Pediatric and Adult Ambulatory Blood Pressure Thresholds and Blood Pressure Load as Predictors of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Adolescents

Hypertension. 2021 Jul;78(1):30-37. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.16896. Epub 2021 May 10.

Authors

Gilad Hamdani¹, Mark M Mitsnefes^#¹, Joseph T Flynn², Richard C Becker³, Stephen Daniels⁴, Bonita E Falkner⁵, Michael Ferguson⁶, Stephen R Hooper⁷, Coral D Hanevold², Julie R Ingelfinger⁸, Marc Lande⁹, Lisa J Martin¹, Kevin E Meyers¹⁰, Bernard Rosner¹¹, Joshua Samuels¹², Elaine M Urbina^#¹

Affiliations

¹ Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petach Tikvah, Israel (G.H.).
² Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA (J.T.F., C.D.H.).
³ University of Cincinnati, OH (R.C.B.).
⁴ Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO (S.D.).
⁵ Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA (B.E.F.).
⁶ Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA (M.F.).
⁷ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (S.R.H.).
⁸ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (J.R.I.).
⁹ University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY (M.L.).
¹⁰ Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA (K.E.M.).
¹¹ Harvard University, Boston, MA (B.R.).
¹² University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston (J.S.).

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 33966453
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.16896

Abstract

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Keywords: American Heart Association; adult; ambulatory; blood pressure; child; heart; hypertrophy.

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Blood Pressure / physiology*
Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory / methods*
Body Mass Index
Child
Cross-Sectional Studies
Echocardiography / methods
Female
Humans
Hypertension / diagnosis
Hypertension / physiopathology*
Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / diagnosis
Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / physiopathology*
Male
Multivariate Analysis