Progress Turns to Regress for Child Hypertension
email article Like their adult counterparts, U.S. children and adolescents had favorable blood pressure (BP) trends stalled or even reversed in the last decade, according to a large National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) analysis. Children, ages 8 to 12 years, had age-adjusted mean BP fall from 102.4/57.2 mm Hg in 1999-2002 to 101.5/51.9 mm Hg in 2011-2014, and then increase to 102.5/53.2 mm Hg in 2015-2018. Prevalence of hypertension virtually stayed flat from 5.2% in 1999-2002 to 4.6% in 2015-2018. Adolescents, ages 13 to 17 years, had mean BP decrease from 109.2/62...
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