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Effects Of The 2017 Clinical Practice Guidelines On Hypertension In Children And Adolescents: A Commentary, Bonita Falkner
Effects Of The 2017 Clinical Practice Guidelines On Hypertension In Children And Adolescents: A Commentary, Bonita Falkner
Department of Medicine Faculty Papers
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Maternal And Gestational Influences On Childhood Blood Pressure., Bonita Falkner
Maternal And Gestational Influences On Childhood Blood Pressure., Bonita Falkner
Department of Medicine Faculty Papers
Exposures that contribute to a sub-optimal intrauterine environment can have an effect on the developing fetus. Impaired fetal growth that results in low birth weight is an established risk factor for cardio-metabolic disorders later in life. Recent epidemiologic and prospective cohort studies that include the maternal and gestational period have identified maternal and gestational conditions that confer increased risk for subsequent cardio-metabolic disorders in the absence of low birth weight. Maternal pre-conception health status, including chronic obesity and type 2 diabetes, increase risk for childhood obesity and obesity-related higher blood pressure (BP) in child offspring. Maternal gestational exposures, including gestational …
Use Of Caudal Epidural Catheter In A Child With Cerebral Palsy With Prior Posterior Spine (T1-Sacrum) Fusion., Divya Dixit, Mary C. Theroux, Kirk W. Dabney, Freeman Miller
Use Of Caudal Epidural Catheter In A Child With Cerebral Palsy With Prior Posterior Spine (T1-Sacrum) Fusion., Divya Dixit, Mary C. Theroux, Kirk W. Dabney, Freeman Miller
Department of Anesthesiology Faculty Papers
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Monitoring And Management Of Hypertension With Obesity In Adolescents., Bonita Falkner
Monitoring And Management Of Hypertension With Obesity In Adolescents., Bonita Falkner
Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers
Largely due to the childhood obesity epidemic, there has been an increase in the prevalence of hypertension in children and adolescents. Obesity associated hypertension is the most common hypertension phenotype among adolescents. Approximately 30% of obese adolescents have elevated blood pressure (BP) or hypertension. Updated definitions of elevated BP and hypertension in adolescents are now similar to definitions of BP status in adults. For adolescents ≥13 years of age, elevated BP is 120 to 129/Hypertension, stage 1, is ≥130 to 139/80 to 89 mm Hg, and hypertension, stage 2, is ≥140/90 mm Hg. BP measurements over separate clinic visits are …