Juvenile hypertension

Abstract

Arterial hypertension is one of the most common cardiovascular diseases in clinical practice. The diagnosis and therapy of young patients have their specifics due to a more common occurrence of secondary forms of hypertension. Specifically, it is very important to think of false isolated systolic hypertension in young men. All classes of antihypertensive drugs are suitable for the initiation and maintenance of antihypertensive treatment, but interactions and contra-indications need to be respected. Despite some exceptions, the target blood pressure at outpatient visits is less than 140/90 mmHg.