Year: 2011
Type: editorial
Abstract: H ypertension is a potent independent risk factor for stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure, renal failure, and mortality in adults. 1 Although most of these adverse outcomes occur in adulthood, it has become clear that hypertension is a life course problem that can become evident in childhood and can be progressive throughout childhood into adolescence and adulthood.2 It has also become clear that elevated blood pressure in childhood is associated with early markers of cardiovascular abnormalities, including left ventricular hypertrophy 3 and atherosclerosis.4 For these reasons, there has been an increasing focus on the identification and treatment of children and adolescents with hypertension and the prevention of the occurrence of hypertension in the first place.
Source: Circulation
Author: Stephen R. Daniels
Institutions: Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Anschutz
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2145104855