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Blood Pressure Tracking From Childhood to Adulthood

Hypertension is the most common non-communicable disease among adults and is the most important modifiable risk factor for premature cardiovascular disease. The increasing worldwide burden of hypertension is a major global health issue. Early prevention with lifestyle modification or pharmaceutical...

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Autores principales: Azegami, Tatsuhiko, Uchida, Keiko, Tokumura, Mitsuaki, Mori, Masaaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8634726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34869128
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.785356
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author Azegami, Tatsuhiko
Uchida, Keiko
Tokumura, Mitsuaki
Mori, Masaaki
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description Hypertension is the most common non-communicable disease among adults and is the most important modifiable risk factor for premature cardiovascular disease. The increasing worldwide burden of hypertension is a major global health issue. Early prevention with lifestyle modification or pharmaceutical treatment reduces the incidence of hypertension and the risk of subsequent cardiovascular disease. Therefore, identification of young persons at risk for hypertension has the obvious benefit of providing a chance for early intervention. Previous studies have demonstrated the positive association of elevated childhood blood pressure with hypertension in adulthood. Accumulated evidence also indicates the possibility that elevated pediatric blood pressure is associated with increased risk of future cardiovascular disease. In this article, we review the tracking of blood pressure from childhood to adulthood and emphasize the importance of pediatric blood pressure monitoring and control for predicting and preventing adult hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
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spelling pubmed-86347262021-12-02 Blood Pressure Tracking From Childhood to Adulthood Azegami, Tatsuhiko Uchida, Keiko Tokumura, Mitsuaki Mori, Masaaki Front Pediatr Pediatrics Hypertension is the most common non-communicable disease among adults and is the most important modifiable risk factor for premature cardiovascular disease. The increasing worldwide burden of hypertension is a major global health issue. Early prevention with lifestyle modification or pharmaceutical treatment reduces the incidence of hypertension and the risk of subsequent cardiovascular disease. Therefore, identification of young persons at risk for hypertension has the obvious benefit of providing a chance for early intervention. Previous studies have demonstrated the positive association of elevated childhood blood pressure with hypertension in adulthood. Accumulated evidence also indicates the possibility that elevated pediatric blood pressure is associated with increased risk of future cardiovascular disease. In this article, we review the tracking of blood pressure from childhood to adulthood and emphasize the importance of pediatric blood pressure monitoring and control for predicting and preventing adult hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8634726/ /pubmed/34869128 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.785356 Text en Copyright © 2021 Azegami, Uchida, Tokumura and Mori. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Azegami, Tatsuhiko
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Tokumura, Mitsuaki
Mori, Masaaki
Blood Pressure Tracking From Childhood to Adulthood
title Blood Pressure Tracking From Childhood to Adulthood
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title_short Blood Pressure Tracking From Childhood to Adulthood
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topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8634726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34869128
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.785356
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