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Childhood Hypertension Risk Lingers Years After Heart Defect Surgery – MedPage Today
Researchers push for updated recommendations for BP monitoring after surgery
Children who underwent surgery for congenital heart disease (CHD) were at much higher risk of developing hypertension in the long term compared with healthy controls, a retrospective cohort study showed.
The incidence of hypertension was 141.3 per 10,000 person-years after CHD surgery and just 11.1 per 10,000 person-years in matched children without CHD, according to Chirag Parikh, MD, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and colleagues.
Ultimately, 12.4% versus 1.1% of these groups developed…
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