Article
Excluding the “load” criterion substantially decreases the prevalence of hypertension diagnosed by ABPM: Data from a middle-income country birth cohort
2025-03-26
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Hypertension in adolescents is a growing public health concern, with ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) playing a key role in diagnosis. Traditionally, the blood pressure (BP) load criterion has been used in ABPM, but recent guidelines recommend its exclusion because of its limited association with target organ damage. This study evaluated the impact of removing the...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cf860570-d094-5233-9805-a16a7da46522
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6234125/v1
