These pediatric hypertension guidelines are an update to the 2004 “Fourth Report on the
Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents.” …

OBJECTIVE: This technical report describes the procedures involved in developing
recommendations on the management of childhood obstructive sleep apnea syndrome …

Sleep-induced apnea and disordered breathing refers to intermittent, cyclical cessations or
reductions of airflow, with or without obstructions of the upper airway (OSA). In the presence …

Experimental approaches directed at addressing these issues are limited by several
considerations. First, the close association between obesity and OSA often obscures …

Emerging evidence has assigned an important role to sleep as a modulator of metabolic
homeostasis. The impact of variations in sleep duration, sleep-disordered breathing, and …

Background: There has been marked expansion in the literature and practice of pediatric
sleep medicine; however, no recent evidence-based practice parameters have been …

The global epidemic of childhood and adolescent obesity and its immediate as well as long‐
term consequences for obese individuals and society as a whole cannot be …

Insufficient sleep, which has become endemic in recent years, has been variably associated
with increased risk of obesity, disorders of glucose and insulin homeostasis, and the …

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is an established risk factor for high blood pressure (BP) in
adults. However, it remains unclear whether the same association could be found in children …

Questions remain as to whether pediatric sleep disordered breathing increases the risk for
elevated blood pressure and blood pressure–dependent cardiac remodeling. We tested the …