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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 [...]

Both obesity and hypertension were independently significant risk factors for left atrial (LA) enlargement–a risk factor for atrial fibrillation–in >1000 persons in the community who were followed with echocardiography over a decade, but obesity was the most predictive of the two, report investigators in the November 17, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American [...]