Blood pressure in children with sickle cell disease is higher than in the general pediatric population

• Main Authors: Juan C. Kupferman (Author), Janet E. Rosenbaum (Author), Marc B. Lande (Author), Stella Stabouli (Author), Yongsheng Wang (Author), Daniella Forman (Author), Dimitrios I. Zafeiriou (Author), Steven G. Pavlakis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease that may be due to a variety of possible risk factors, including abnormal blood pressure. Blood pressure (BP) of children and adolescents with SCD has been reported to be lower compared to th...