High Prevalence of Masked Hypertension in Children With Kidney Disease

Nov.14, 2009 in general surgery

Children with chronic kidney disease have a high prevalence of masked hypertension, often in association with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), research findings indicate. Therefore, these children should have early echocardiography and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring to evaluate their cardiovascular risk, the investigators advise. As they report online in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Dr. Mark Mitsnefes, from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Ohio, and co-authors analyzed 366 pediatric kidney disease patients with baseline echocardiography results, 266 of whom also underwent ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.