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Longitudinal assessment of high blood pressure in children with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. [PDF]

, 2014
ObjectiveNonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) affects 9.6% of children and may put these children at elevated risk of high blood pressure and subsequent cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
Behling, Cynthia, Donithan, Michele, Hallinan, Erin K, Newton, Kimberly P, Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Clinical Research Network, Schwimmer, Jeffrey B, Tonascia, James, Xanthakos, Stavra A, Zepeda, Anne   +8 more
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Healthy Living: High Blood Pressure

EDIS, 2009
Revised! FCS8599, a 1-page illustrated handout by Linda B. Bobroff and Leigh Ann Martin, explains what high blood pressure, or hypertension, is, risk factors, and encourages regular blood pressure check-ups. Published by the UF Department of Family Youth
Linda B. Bobroff, Leigh Ann Martin
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Prevalence of and Factors Associated With High Blood Pressure at 15 Years of Age: A Birth Cohort Study

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2023
Background Arterial hypertension is the greatest cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Our aim was to investigate the prevalence of and factors associated with high blood pressure (HBP) among adolescents.
Andrea Mabilde Petracco, Rita Mattiello, Caroline Cardozo Bortolotto, Rodrigo Wiltgen Ferreira, Alicia Matijasevich, Fernando Celso Lopes Fernandes de Barros, Frederico Orlando Friedrich, Luciana Tovo‐Rodrigues, Aluísio Jardim Dornellas de Barros, Iná S. Santos   +9 more
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Healthy Living: High Blood Pressure

EDIS, 2013
High blood pressure is increased pressure of blood inside the blood vessels. Too much pressure causes more work for the heart. Another name for high blood pressure is hypertension.
Linda B. Bobroff, Leigh Ann Martin
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Controlling High Blood Pressure [PDF]

The Permanente Journal, 2006
Presented as a poster at the Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute Conference, October 18, 2004, San Francisco, California; as a poster at the Kaiser Permanente National Quality Conference, June 27–July 1, 2005, Monterey, California; and at the Kaiser Permanente National Hypertension Implementation Committee teleconference, September 13, 2005.
Patricia E, Casey, Amy, Compton-Phillips, Stacey, Shapiro, Phong, Nguyen   +3 more
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A review of machine learning techniques in photoplethysmography for the non-invasive cuff-less measurement of blood pressure [PDF]

, 2020
Hypertension or high blood pressure is a leading cause of death throughout the world and a critical factor for increasing the risk of serious diseases, including cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and heart failure.
El-Hajj, C., Kyriacou, P. A.
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Simplified hypertension screening approaches with low misclassification and high efficiency in the United States, Nepal, and India

The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2021
Standard triplicate blood pressure (BP) measurements pose time barriers to hypertension screening, especially in resource‐limited settings. We assessed the implications of simplified approaches using fewer measurements with adults (≥18 years old) not ...
Olive Tang, Minghao Kou, Yifei Lu, Edgar R. Miller 3rd, Tammy Brady, Cheryl Dennison‐Himmelfarb, Arun More, Dinesh Neupane, Lawrence Appel, Kunihiro Matsushita   +9 more
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Sustained high blood pressure and 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in Tanzanian adolescents

Scientific Reports, 2021
Estimates for prevalence of high blood pressure (BP) among adolescents in Africa vary widely and few studies, if any, have documented the results of the recommended stepwise BP screening.
Mussa K. Nsanya, Philip Ayieko, Ramadhan Hashim, Ezekiel Mgema, Daniel Fitzgerald, Saidi Kapiga, Robert N. Peck   +6 more
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Prediction of Primary vs Secondary Hypertension in Children [PDF]

, 2012
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/91106/1/j.1751-7176.2012.00603.x ...
Ahmed, Arar, Bao, Bartosh, Beckett, Bhatnagar, Blume, Boneparth, Cherry, Egan, Erdelyi, Flynn, Flynn, Flynn, Gill, Gregianin, Hagan, Hansen, Kapur, Laragh, McGavock, Moorthy, National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents, National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on Hypertension Control in Children and Adolescents, Robinson, Silverstein, Sorof, Task Force on Blood Pressure Control in Children, Urrutia-Rojas, Wyszynska   +29 more
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Non-pharmacological treatment in high blood pressure

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018
Introduction and purpose of the work. High blood pressure causes an early death of people all over the world. It develops circulatory system diseases such as: heart attack, stroke, heart failure, peripheral artery disease, and also kidney failures.
Paulina Sztandera
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