Prognostic value of ambulatory blood pressure and clinical use of echocardiography to detect left ventricular hypertrophy in children evaluated for primary hypertension

Hypertension (HTN) is common in children and often associated with pathologic progression to end organ damage, specifically left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). The primary goal of this retrospective chart review is to determine if patients with higher blood pressure were more likely to complete echocardiogram (ECHO) and more likely to have LVH, among a pediatric population referred for hypertension evaluation before the 2017 American Academy of...