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From: Novelty in hypertension in children and adolescents: focus on hypertension during the first year of life, use and interpretation of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, role of physical activity in prevention and treatment, simple carbohydrates and uric acid as risk factors

Fig. 2

Differences between office and ambulatory blood pressure in children and adolescents Office blood pressure-ambulatory blood pressure differences in various subgroups of children (systolic values at left, diastolic values at right). a and b Groups defined by tertiles of age. Blue: low age tertile (4–10 years); red: medium age tertile (10–14 years); green: high-age tertile (14–18 years). c and d Groups defined by blood pressure status. Blue: normotensive patients (normal blood pressure in absence of treatment); red: treated hypertensive patients; green: untreated hypertensive patients. Numbers of patients in each subgroup are indicated in Table 1. The histograms represent means of the various types of differences listed at the bottom and bars represent _ SDs. Δ mmHg, differences in mmHg; 24-h ABP, 24-h mean of ambulatory blood pressure; dt-ABP, mean of daytime ambulatory blood pressure; nt-ABP, mean of night-time ambulatory blood pressure; OBP, office blood pressure. From Salice P. et al. [79] (permission required)

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Italian Journal of Pediatrics

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