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Hypertension development in normotensive adolescents

Nature Reviews Nephrology volume 6, page 502 (2010)Cite this article

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Increasing levels of blood pressure in adolescents—even levels within the low-normotensive range—are linearly associated with an increasing risk of incident hypertension in later life, according to a report in Hypertension.

Amir Tirosh and co-workers followed 26,980 adolescents (23,191 of whom were male) who were in the Medical Corps of the Israeli army and were part of the Metabolic Lifestyle and Nutrition Assessment in Young Adults (MELANY) cohort. Individuals included in Tirosh et al.'s analysis had a blood pressure <140/90 mmHg at baseline (that is, at their initial medical evaluation before recruitment for military service; mean age 17.4 years). Blood pressure and BMI measurements were recorded every 3–5 years between the ages of 25 years and 42 years.

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  1. Tirosh, A. et al. Progression of normotensive adolescents to hypertensive adults: a study of 26980 teenagers. Hypertension 56, 203–209 (2010)

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Ireland, R. Hypertension development in normotensive adolescents. Nat Rev Nephrol 6, 502 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneph.2010.106

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