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doi: 10.1093/fampra/7.3.219.
Should family doctors screen asymptomatic children for high blood pressure?
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- DOI: 10.1093/fampra/7.3.219
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Should family doctors screen asymptomatic children for high blood pressure?
Fam Pract.
1990 Sep.
Abstract
Whereas the United States Task Forces on Blood Pressure Control in Children have recommended annual blood pressure screening in all children, a working party of the British Hypertension Society has formed the opposite opinion. Relevant literature is reviewed here, and the conclusion reached that on epidemiological and ethical grounds, screening children for hypertension cannot at present be justified.
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