Trends in Blood Pressure and Hypertension Among US Children and Adolescents, 1999-2018
129 Citations•2021•
Shakia T. Hardy, Swati Sakhuja, Byron C. Jaeger
It is suggested that from 1999-2002 to 2015-2018, mean systolic blood pressure decreased among adolescents aged 13 to 17 years and mean DBP decreased among children and adolescents aged 8 to 12 and 13 to 13 years, respectively, in the US.
Abstract
Despite an overall decline in mean SBP and DBP from 1999-2002 to 2015-2018, BP levels among children and adolescents may have increased from 2011-2014 to 2015-2018.