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PeerJ, PeerJ, (2), p. e381, 2014

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.381

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Beyond birth-weight: early growth and adolescent blood pressure in a Peruvian population

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Abstract

Background. Longitudinal investigations into the origins of adult essential hypertension have found elevated blood pressure in children to accurately track into adulthood, however the direct causes of essential hypertension in adolescence and adulthood remains unclear.