Systemic arterial hypertension in children following renal transplantation: prevalence and risk factors | Zendy

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Systemic arterial hypertension in children following renal transplantation: prevalence and risk factors

Author(s) -

Manish D. Sinha,

Larissa Kerecuk,

Julie Gilg,

Christopher Reid

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

nephrology dialysis transplantation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654

H-Index - 168

eISSN - 1460-2385

pISSN - 0931-0509

DOI - 10.1093/ndt/gfr804

Subject(s) - medicine , transplantation , blood pressure , odds ratio , population , kidney transplantation , systolic hypertension , diastole , quartile , cardiology , retrospective cohort study , risk factor , surgery , confidence interval , environmental health

Control of blood pressure (BP) following renal transplantation may improve allograft and patient survival. Our aims were (i) to describe the distribution of BP and the prevalence of systolic and/or diastolic hypertension in children over the first 5 years following renal transplantation and (ii) to evaluate clinical risk factors and centre-specific factors associated with hypertension in this population.

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