RT Journal
A1 AMBERG S
T1 HYpertension in the young
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1929
FD February 1
VO 37
IS 2
SP 335
OP 350
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1929.01930020105010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1929.01930020105010
AB Neither textbooks nor more comprehensive works on diseases of children have much to say about hypertension. Hecht,1 in Pfaundler and Schlossman's Handbook on Diseases of Children, remarked: "Lasting increase of blood pressure is found particularly in cases of chronic nephritis, but also in scarlet fever nephritis after a few days. A further increase of blood pressure is often a precursor of uremia."A number of children with increased blood pressure, ranging in age from 6 to 16 years, was examined and treated at the Mayo Clinic during a period of about eight years. The progress of the disease after dismissal could not always be ascertained, with the exception of a few recent reports, and necropsies were not obtained. Nevertheless, the twenty-five cases serving as a basis for this report offer features of significance.According to Judson and Nicholson,2 and Faber and James,3 the systolic blood pressure does