Microalbuminuria in children with primary and white-coat hypertension.

Pediatr Nephrol

Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Motol, 2nd School of Medicine, Charles University Prague, V Uvalu 84, 15006, Prague 5, Czech Republic.

Published: March 2012

Microalbuminuria serves as an early marker of hypertension-related renal damage in adults. However, data on the prevalence of microalbuminuria in paediatric hypertensive patients in general and in children with white-coat hypertension (WCH) specifically are lacking. The aim of our study was to investigate the prevalence of microalbuminuria in children with primary hypertension (PH) and WCH, respectively. This was a retrospective case review of children with PH and WCH treated at three paediatric nephrology centres. Untreated children with either form of hypertension for whom measurements of urinary albumin excretion (UAE) had been performed were enrolled in the study. The study cohort comprised 52 children (39 boys) with hypertension (26 children with PH, 26 with WCH). Microalbuminuria (>3.2 mg/mmol creatinine) was present in 20% of children with PH and none of the children with WCH (p < 0.01). Children with PH had a higher median UAE than those with WCH (1.27 ± 1.92 vs. 0.66 ± 0.46 mg/mmol creatinine, p < 0.05). Based on these results, we suggest that children with PH have an increased prevalence of microalbuminuria, while children with WCH show no signs of hypertension-related renal damage.

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