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Daniel Feig, MD/PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
University of Alabama, Birmingham, School of Medicine
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Don Batisky, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatric Nephrology
Emory University/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Although hypertension is identifiable in children and adolescents, there are many knowledge gaps on how to best define and manage high blood pressure in the young. SHIP-AHOY (Study of High Blood Pressure in Pediatrics: Adult Hypertension Onset in Youth) is being conducted to address these knowledge gaps. With a goal to recruit five hundred adolescents who will undergo ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, echocardiographic, vascular, and cognitive assessments, as well as epigenetic studies to identify mechanisms that underlie the development of hypertensive target organ damage, we expect to be able to fill some of these gaps. The primary aim of the study is to develop a risk-based definition of hypertension in the young that will result in better understanding of the transition from blood pressure in youth to adult cardiovascular disease.
Details of the rationale for and design of this study will be discussed, and early results of outcomes of SHIP-AHOY will be presented here.
Presenter: Bonita Falkner, MD – Thomas Jefferson Unniversity
Presenter: Elaine Urbina, MD, MS – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Presenter: Joseph Flynn, MD, MS – University of Washington School of Medicine
Presenter: Marc B. Lande, MD, MPH – University of Rochester
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