Arterial hypertension:modern approaches to diagnosing initial stages in children

Problems of improving diagnostics and prevention of arterial hypertension (AH) in adolescents are of top priority in pediatric cardiology, because this condition is quite widespread and AH may transform into essential hypertension in adults. In this paper we show the possibility of using the PTT (pulse transit time), which is determined using «BPLab MnSDP-3» as an additional indicator of arterial stiffness in diagnosing the initial stages of hypertension in clinical practice.