Lane D A, Gill P
University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Dudley Road, Birmingham, UK.
J Hum Hypertens. 2004 Apr;18(4):223-8. doi: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1001674.
There is growing evidence that hypertension, one of the major modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD), is established early in life. Given this, it is important to discover when hypertension first becomes apparent. Further, it is of particular importance to examine the ethnic differences in blood pressure (BP) in children, given the variation in rates of CVD morbidity and mortality among adults from different ethnic groups.
越来越多的证据表明，高血压作为心血管疾病（CVD）的主要可改变风险因素之一，在生命早期就已形成。鉴于此，发现高血压首次显现的时间很重要。此外，鉴于不同种族成年人的心血管疾病发病率和死亡率存在差异，研究儿童血压（BP）的种族差异尤为重要。
