The most frequent cause of serious hypertension in children is:
a. heart disease.
b. liver failure.
c. renal disease.
d. rheumatic fever.
C
If the systolic blood pressure is elevated and the diastolic blood pressure is not, anxiety may be responsible. Blood pressure in children varies by gender and height at any age. Hypertension in children is becoming more common because of the increased prevalence of overweight children. Usually, hypertension is caused by kidney disease, renal arterial disease, coarctation of the aorta, and pheochromocytoma, not heart disease, liver failure, or rheumatic fever.
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