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Association of Blood Pressure Level With Left Ventricular Mass in Adolescents.
Hypertension
September 2019
Division of Nephrology; Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington School of Medicine (C.H., J.T.F.).
Hypertension is associated with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), a risk factor for cardiovascular events. Since cardiovascular events in youth are rare, hypertension has historically been defined by the 95th percentile of the normal blood pressure (BP) distribution in healthy children. The optimal BP percentile associated with LVH in youth is unknown.
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