Is adult hypertension associated with blood pressure variability in childhood in blacks and whites : the bogalusa heart study?
Increases in BP variations as well as levels in early life are predictive of adult hypertension, which underscore the childhood origin of the natural history of essential hypertension.
The prevalence of treatment adherence changes over time. Indirect methods (dose/pill count and self-reported) can be useful to detect non-adherence in COPD patients. The combination of MGT and BT is the best approach to test self-reported adherence.