Blood pressure of children in the United States

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 931-932
Author(s):  
Forrest H. Adams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Physical Examination ◽  
Hypertensive Patient ◽  
Blood Pressure Control ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Pressure Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Blood Institute ◽  
National Heart Lung

Recently a Task Force of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute published a report in Pediatrics on blood pressure control in children.1 The report was good in many respects in that it presented in summary form a critique of what we currently know and do not know about blood pressure in children. Particularly good for pediatricians were the sections on methodology for measurement of blood pressure; mechanisms and causes of hypertension; evaluation of the hypertensive patient; and treatment of the hypertensive patient. The Task Force stressed the importance of further research in the field of blood pressure control in children and specifically recommended that physicians incorporate the measurement of blood pressure in the annual physical examination after 3 years of age.

Children's Blood Pressure in the United States

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-329
Author(s):  
Sidney Blumenthal ◽  
W. McFate Smith ◽  
Robert C. Tarazi ◽  
Ronald Lauer ◽  
Mary Jane Jesse
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Blood Pressure Control ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Pressure Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Blood Pressures ◽  
The Relationship

We have read Dr Forrest Adams' note entitled "Blood Pressure of Children in the United States" (Pediatrics See Table in the PDF File 61:931, 1978) in which he comments on specific sections of a report of a Task Force on Blood Pressure Control in Children. Knowledge concerning the relationship between blood pressure in children and subsequent health in adult life should be of continuous interest to all pediatricians. Dr Adams states that it is misleading to present percentile graphs of US children's blood pressures for reference because US children's blood pressures increase with age while other cultures fail to show an increase from infancy to 50 years.

Blood Pressure

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-460
Author(s):  
MYUNG K. PARK
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Laboratory Testing ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Pressure Control ◽  
Proper Treatment ◽  
Blood Institute ◽  
National Heart Lung ◽  
Standards And Guidelines

To the Editor.— Recently the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Task Force on Blood Pressure Control in Children published revised normal BP standards and guidelines for children.1 I welcome this effort, as reliable normative data have been unavailable but are prerequisite for the early detection of hypertension and its proper treatment. The guidelines published by the Task Force for the detection of hypertension, the diagnostic evaluation, follow-up laboratory testing, and treatment are, in my opinion, excellent.

What Should Blood Pressure Be in Healthy Children?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-145
Author(s):  
Wallace W. McCrory
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Task Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
Progressive Increase ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Blood Institute ◽  
Recent Commentary ◽  
National Heart Lung ◽  
Novel Concept

In a recent commentary,1 Adams and Landaw propose the novel concept that normally growing children need not have an associated progressive increase in blood pressure (BP). Noting that the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Task Force graphs to be used for plotting of pressure during growth and maturation show a continual increase of BP levels with age, they state that "Any implication that this is a healthy phenomenon associated with the aging process . . . is unjustified."2 To support this concept they cite data from studies in unacculturated tribes (ie, the Yanomamo Indians) showing that mean BP levels of these indians aged 0 to 50+, except for a slight increase from ages 0 to 9 years to 10 to 19 years, show no increase with age; this pattern is unlike that found in the United States and other Western cultures.

Worksite High Blood Pressure Control Programs: How to Get Started

1981 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 22-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen O. Coburn
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
High Blood Pressure ◽  
Blood Pressure Control ◽  
Pressure Control ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Blood Institute ◽  
National Heart Lung ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Employee Groups ◽  
Blue Shield

Under a contract with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Associations carried out a demonstration project to determine how health insurers could utilize in-place systems and personnel to make worksite high blood pressure control programs more available to employee groups. When this project was initiated two and a half years ago, effective worksite-based programs had been developed in academic settings and tested in industry. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Connecticut was selected by the national Blue Cross and Blue Shield Associations to serve as one of two demonstration test sites. The program is expanding to involve five additional Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans.

Statement on the Role of Dietary Management in Hypertension Control

1981 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 46-48
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
High Blood Pressure ◽  
Blood Pressure Control ◽  
Pressure Control ◽  
Blood Institute ◽  
National High Blood Pressure ◽  
National Heart Lung ◽  
National Organizations ◽  
Coordination And Collaboration

The National High Blood Pressure Education Program Coordinating Committee is a policymaking body whose purpose is to improve coordination and collaboration among national organizations involved in high blood pressure control. The Committee is composed of representatives of a number of professional and voluntary medical and health organizations. It is chaired and sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health. Among the activities of the Committee are defining priorities, exchanging views, promoting new initiatives in high blood pressure control, sponsoring a national conference, and coordinating High Blood Pressure Month in May of each year.

scholarly journals Antihypertensive drug use and blood pressure control among stroke survivors in the United States: NHANES 2003‐2014

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 766-773
Author(s):  
Kalyani Sonawane ◽  
Yenan Zhu ◽  
Rajesh Balkrishnan ◽  
Ryan Suk ◽  
Anjail Sharrief ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Antihypertensive Drug ◽  
Blood Pressure Control ◽  
Pressure Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Stroke Survivors
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