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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in healthy children with parental hypertension.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Jan 2009
Alpay Harika, Ozdemir Nihal, Wühl Elke, Topuzoğlu Ahmet
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to compare ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) parameters in offspring with at least one hypertensive parent (HP) to offspring with normotensive parents (NP) and to determine whether gender of parent or child might influence the association between parental hypertension and blood pressure (BP). Eighty-nine healthy children (mean age 11.1 +/- 3.9 years) with HP and 90 controls...
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