High blood pressure easy to miss in children with kidney disease
Friday, November 20, 2009 - 23:28
in Health & Medicine
Spot blood pressure readings in children with chronic kidney disease often fail to detect hypertension -- even during doctor's office visits -- increasing a child's risk for serious heart problems, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center and other institutions. A report of the findings appears online in the Journal of American Society of Nephrology.