2024
DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.124.21359
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Cardiovascular Health Starts in the Womb

Bonita Falkner,
Barbara T. Alexander,
Anne-Monique Nuyt
et al.

Abstract: Hypertension has largely been viewed as a disorder of adulthood. Historically, blood pressure (BP) was not routinely measured in children because hypertension was considered uncommon in childhood. It was not until the 1970s that it was apparent that in childhood BP levels were normally lower compared with those in adults, were related to age and growth, and that abnormal BP in children needed different definitions. Based on the distribution of BP levels in available child cohorts, the 95th percentile of BP lev… Show more

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