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Published on: April 29, 2013
Relative tachycardia in ambulant children with borderline hypertension
Abstract:
Borderline hypertensives who demonstrate tachycardia have a tendency toward the development of essential hypertension. However, the documentation of tachycardia in previous studies has been generally based on brief periods of observation. In the present study, we measured heart rates through a 24-hour period in 16 ambulatory mildly hypertensive subjects (ages 5 to 23 years). When compared with normal matched controls, significantly (p less than 0.05) higher heart rates were observed during the waking periods (99 +/- 9 vs 90 +/- 11) and sleep periods (72 +/- 12 vs 62 +/- 7). Similar observations were also made for 24 hours (90 +/- 8 vs 79 +/- 8). In addition, hypertensives also demonstrated thickened (during diastole) left ventricular posterior wall (0.96 +/- 0.17 vs 0.85 +/- 0.13 cm; p less than 0.05) and interventricular septum (0.98 +/- 0.17 vs 0.84 +/- 0.19 cm; p less than 0.05). It is suggested that tachycardia may be an early manifestation of borderline hypertension in children.
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