High blood pressure easy to miss in children with kidney disease

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 23:00

(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Spot blood pressure readings in children with chronic kidney disease often fail to detect hypertension -- even during doctor's office visits -- increasing a child's risk for serious heart problems, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center and other institutions.

A report of the findings appears online in the Journal of American Society of Nephrology.


 

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