Ep. 75: Pressures of Childhood - Understanding and Managing Pediatric Hypertension with Dr. Carissa Baker-Smith
The overall prevalence of hypertension in childhood is 2% to 5%, and it can be worse (or, worse yet, go undetected) in high-deprivation neighborhoods in the United States. Learn more about the research done in this area by Dr. Carissa Baker-Smith, Director of Pediatric Preventive Cardiology at Nemours Children’s Health. She also shares her insights on outcomes for undetected pediatric high blood pressure, and mitigation strategies to better detect and treat it.
This episode was recorded live at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada on Saturday, May 4.
Watch on YouTube.
Guests:
Carissa Baker-Smith, MD, MPH, MS, Director of Preventive Cardiology, Nemours Children’s Cardiac Center, Delaware Valley
Host: Carol Vassar
Producers: Carol Vassar, Joe Gillespie and Sebastian Riella
Views expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the views of the host or management.
Subscribe, review or let your voice be heard at NemoursWellBeyond.org.
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The overall prevalence of hypertension in childhood is 2% to 5%, and it can be worse (or, worse yet, go undetected) in high-deprivation neighborhoods in the United States. Learn more about the research done in this area by Dr. Carissa Baker-Smith, Director of Pediatric Preventive Cardiology at Nemours Children’s Health. She also shares her insights on outcomes for undetected pediatric high blood pressure, and mitigation strategies to better detect and treat it.
This episode was recorded live at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada on Saturday, May 4.
Watch on YouTube.
Guests:
Carissa Baker-Smith, MD, MPH, MS, Director of Preventive Cardiology, Nemours Children’s Cardiac Center, Delaware Valley
Host: Carol Vassar
Producers: Carol Vassar, Joe Gillespie and Sebastian Riella
Views expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the views of the host or management.
Subscribe, review or let your voice be heard at NemoursWellBeyond.org.
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