Liu K, Li C, Gong H, et al. - Among adolescents, a quite high prevalence of hypertension, evaluated by both guidelines with several risk factors, was found and a single blood pressure measurement visit results in an overestimation of hypertension prevalence in them.

• This population-based multicenter study of 42,025 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years was conducted to provide precise prevalence of adolescent hypertension.

• According to 2017 American Association Pediatrics hypertension guidelines, standardized prevalence of initial and confirmed hypertension were 18.6% and 5.9%, respectively, these were 24.5% and 8.8% employing 2018 Chinese hypertension guidelines.

• Risk factors included male, parental hypertension history, higher heart rate, higher waist circumference, and adiposity indexes including overweight, and obesity.