Central systolic blood pressure and central pulse pressure predict left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertensive children.
Mieczyslaw LitwinŁukasz ObryckiAnna NiemirskaJędrzej SarneckiZbigniew KułagaPublished in: Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) (2018)
These findings suggest that pulse wave analysis is complementary to ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in assessment of risk of organ damage in hypertensive adolescents.
Keyphrases
- blood pressure
- young adults
- left ventricular
- hypertensive patients
- heart rate
- heart failure
- physical activity
- oxidative stress
- blood glucose
- acute myocardial infarction
- type diabetes
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- aortic stenosis
- left atrial
- acute coronary syndrome
- skeletal muscle
- weight loss
- coronary artery disease
- atrial fibrillation
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- ejection fraction