ReviewJAMA pediatrics2013
Screening for elevated blood pressure in children and adolescents: a critical appraisal.
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- Hidden hypertension and early cardiac alterations: insights from ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Burden of Disease Attributable to High Systolic Blood Pressure in Young Adults: An Analysis From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2025Article
- Discourses leading to diagnostic excess: an ethnopsychological study in Italian schools.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Combined associations of general obesity and central obesity with hypertension stages and phenotypes among children and adolescents in Zhejiang, China.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2023Article
- Efficacy of fosinopril and amlodipine in pediatric primary hypertension: a single-center observational study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- The utility of resting pulse rate in defining high blood pressure among adolescents in Mbarara municipality, Uganda.Journal of human hypertension · 2021Article
- Cardiometabolic risk factors and early indicators of vascular dysfunction: a cross-sectional cohort study in South African adolescents.BMJ open · 2021Article
- A Nonlinear Relation Between Maternal Red Blood Cell Manganese Concentrations and Child Blood Pressure at Age 6-12 y: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study.The Journal of nutrition · 2021Article
- Establishing percentiles for blood pressure based on absolute height for children and adolescents.BMC pediatrics · 2021Article
- Blood Pressure Curve for Children Less than 10 Years of Age: Findings from the Ewha Birth and Growth Cohort Study.Journal of Korean medical science · 2020Article
- Early life and adolescent arsenic exposure from drinking water and blood pressure in adolescence.Environmental research · 2019Article
- Estimation of salt intake and excretion in children in one region of Switzerland: a cross-sectional study.European journal of nutrition · 2019Article
- Performance of blood pressure measurements at an initial screening visit for the diagnosis of hypertension in children.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2019Article
- From detection early in life to the primordial prevention of elevated blood pressure.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2019Article
- Prevalence of high blood pressure and high normal blood pressure among 7- to 17-year-old children and adolescents in developed regions, China from 2014 to 2017: using new national blood pressure reference for Chinese children and adolescents.Journal of human hypertension · 2019Article
- Selective Blood Pressure Screening in the Young: Quantification of Population Wide Underestimation of Elevated Blood Pressure.International journal of hypertension · 2019Article
- Dynamic prediction of childhood high blood pressure in a population-based birth cohort: a model development study.BMJ open · 2018Article
- Hypertension and prehypertension among adolescents attending secondary schools in urban area of South-East, Nigeria.The Pan African medical journal · 2018Article
- Association between high birth weight and hypertension in children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study in China.Journal of human hypertension · 2017Article
- National Blood Pressure Reference for Chinese Han Children and Adolescents Aged 7 to 17 Years.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2017Article
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Abstract
Although screening for elevated blood pressure (BP) in adults is beneficial, evidence of its beneficial effects in children is not clear. Elevated BP in children is associated with atherosclerosis early in life and tracks across the life course. However, because of the high variability in BP, tracking is weak, and having an elevated BP in childhood has a low predictive value for having elevated BP later in life. The absolute risk of cardiovascular diseases associated with a given level of BP in childhood and the long-term effect of treatment beginning in childhood are not known. No study has experimentally evaluated the benefits and harm of BP screening in children. One modeling study indicates that BP screen-and-treat strategies in adolescents are moderately cost-effective but less cost-effective than population-wide interventions to decrease BP for the reduction of coronary heart diseases. The US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the European Society of Hypertension recommend that children 3 years of age and older have their BP measured during every health care visit. According to the US Preventive Services Task Force, there is no sufficient evidence to recommend for or against screening, but their recommendations have to be updated. Whether the benefits of universal BP screening in children outweigh the harm has to be determined. Studies are needed to assess the absolute risk of cardiovascular diseases associated with elevated BP in childhood, to evaluate how to simplify the identification of elevated BP, to evaluate the long-term benefits and harm of treatment beginning in childhood, and to compare universal and targeted screening strategies.
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