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Revised normative blood pressure values for children show better discrimination of kidney disease risk
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Revised normative blood pressure values for children show better discrimination of kidney disease risk

by National Kidney Foundation  Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Analysis recently published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) compared and contrasted the 2017 and 2004 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) childhood hypertension guidelines and showed higher levels of proteinuria in children with hypertensive range blood pressure (BP) with 2017 vs. 2004 blood pressure percentiles. This comparison...