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Screening for hypertension in the emergency department
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- Published on: 29 April 2016
- Published on: 29 April 2016better recognition of hypertension is warranted even in subjects agedShow More
The statement that "frequency of hypertension is very low below [the age of 35]"(1) should be qualified by the caveat that hypertension is acknowledged to be underdiagnosed in children and adolscents(2), and that, over the past decade, blood pressure has, in fact, increased in those two age groups(3). Accordingly,if anything, we are in the middle of a demographic change in the prevalence of hypertension, with the potentia...
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