With the present phenomenon employees of the Research Institute of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery of the Ministry of Health of Russia, who tested blood pressure among children.

In 44% of healthy schoolchildren, it jumped during the measurement to critical markers, allowing to diagnose "hypertension". Subsequent studies by Russian scientists have shown that almost half of those surveyed suffer from "hypertension on a white robe".

As it became known to "MK", ??this study convinced doctors that the pathological condition, which occurs in 20% of adults, is much more characteristic of minors. In turn, the fear that embraces children when applying cuffs, speaks of violations in the central nervous system.

While doctors are unclear whether this phenomenon is a sign of the onset of the formation of hypertensive disease and an increased risk of cardiovascular complications. To find out, they intend to include children with the syndrome "hypertension on a white robe" in the primary prevention group of hypertension. In other words, physicians will conduct daily monitoring of the pressure in these children to find out under what circumstances it is able to rise medicus. En.

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