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Published in: Current Hypertension Reports 7/2019

01-07-2019 | Echocardiography | Pediatric Hypertension (B Falkner, Section Editor)

Predictors and Consequences of Pediatric Hypertension: Have Advanced Echocardiography and Vascular Testing Arrived?

Authors: Kyle D. Hope, Justin P. Zachariah

Published in: Current Hypertension Reports | Issue 7/2019

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Abstract

Purpose of Review

Pediatric hypertension is relatively common and associated with future adult hypertension. Elevated blood pressure in youth predicts future adult cardiovascular disease and blood pressure control can prevent progression of pediatric kidney disease. However, pediatric blood pressure is highly variable within a given child and among children in a population.

Recent Findings

Therefore, modalities to index aggregate and cumulative blood pressure status are of potential benefit in identifying youth in danger of progression from a risk factor of subclinical phenotypic alteration to clinically apparent event.

Summary

In this review, we advocate for the health risk stratification roles of echocardiographically assessed cardiac remodeling, arterial stiffness assessment, and assessment by ultrasound of arterial thickening in children and adolescents with hypertension.
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Metadata
Title
Predictors and Consequences of Pediatric Hypertension: Have Advanced Echocardiography and Vascular Testing Arrived?
Authors
Kyle D. Hope
Justin P. Zachariah
Publication date
01-07-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current Hypertension Reports / Issue 7/2019
Print ISSN: 1522-6417
Electronic ISSN: 1534-3111
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11906-019-0958-3

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