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Children under pressure
Children under pressure: an underestimated burden?
Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor F P Cappuccio
Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, CSB at UHCW Campus, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry CV2 4DX, UK;cvme@warwick.ac.uk
Perspective on the paper by Jackson et al (see 298)
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The study by Jackson et al1 represents a significant contribution to our knowledge in the area of hypertension research and related clinical practice. The definition of national blood pressure references for children and young adults, aged 4–23 years, living in Great Britain provides important, complementary information to the updated US guidelines on the management of high blood pressure in children and adolescents aged 1–17 years,2 as well as to earlier attempts to define normative blood pressure values from other countries.3–7 In addition, these centiles will integrate existing charts in the UK regarding other important parameters (eg, body mass index), thereby allowing a more comprehensive characterisation of the health of children. Some distinctive aspects of the study by Jackson et al1 should be highlighted: the representative and large sample size of the seven surveys from which blood pressure data were drawn; the consistent method applied for blood pressure
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