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Different diagnostic criteria significantly affect the rates of hypertension in 18-year-old high school students
INTRODUCTION: Childhood hypertension is defined based on the normative distribution of blood pressure (BP), but from the age of 18 years high BP is diagnosed using adult criteria. We compared the rates of diagnosis of hypertension in a group of 18-year-old subjects using BP percentiles and the adult...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Termedia Publishing House
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298336/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22419926 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2010.17082 |