Abnormal blood pressure and pediatric obesity phenotype: Red flags for clinical practice.

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: systolic and diastolic blood pressure values identify different subtypes of Primary Hypertension. In pediatric age, hypertension is often related to obesity. Characterization of an individual's Blood Pressure (BP) status needs multiple measurements in the course of time, but this is rarely the case, principally in everyday pediatrics. Thus, the finding of abnormal BP values even in a single...

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