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Practice Guideline
. 2014 May;63(5):1116-35.
doi: 10.1161/HYP.0000000000000007. Epub 2014 Mar 3.

Update: ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

Joseph T Flynn, Stephen R Daniels, Laura L Hayman, David M Maahs, Brian W McCrindle, Mark Mitsnefes, Justin P Zachariah, Elaine M Urbina; American Heart Association Atherosclerosis, Hypertension and Obesity in Youth Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young
Practice Guideline

Update: ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

Joseph T Flynn et al. Hypertension. 2014 May.
No abstract available

Keywords: AHA Scientific Statements; adolescents; ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; blood pressure, high; child; guideline; hypertension.

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Graph of mean daytime diastolic ambulatory blood pressure (BP) for girls according to height in the Central European pediatric ambulatory blood pressure monitoring database. DBP indicates diastolic blood pressure. Modified from Wühl et al with permission of the publisher. Copyright © 2002, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.
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