Youth-Onset Hypertension: Updates to Epidemiology and Management
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Ian Macumber Section of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

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Andrew M. South Section of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, Brenner Children’s and Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences and Department of Surgery, Hypertension and Vascular Research and Cardiovascular Sciences Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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