Clinical follow-up study of 166 cases of children with hypertension.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood hypertension is a challenge for pediatricians to discover and diagnose. We sought to analyze its clinical characteristics and related risk factors in patients at a single center.

Methods

From 2009 to 2019, 166 children with hypertension were retrospectively analyzed, and their clinical manifestations and relevant laboratory data were collected for statistical analysis.

Results

A total of 120 males and 46 females were included in this study. Males were more common than females (P=0.012), and 86.7% were from rural areas. Hypertension appeared in all age groups, but most of them were puberty (52.4%). Most primary hypertension cases (57/91) had no obvious clinical symptoms, and BMI (OR 1.085, 95% CI: 1.004-1.173, P=0.038) and a family history of hyper

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8349960 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature