TY - JOUR AU - Janda, Jan AB - Pediatr Nephrol (2008) 23:2285–2286 DOI 10.1007/s00467-008-0905-z LETTER TO THE EDITORS Tereza Šuláková & Jan Janda Received: 12 May 2008 /Accepted: 14 May 2008 / Published online: 8 July 2008 IPNA 2008 Sirs, group (26 patients). However, the diabetic patients who We read with great interest the article “Alterations of blood revealed non-dipping, compared with the patients with pressure in type 1 diabetic children and adolescents” [1]. normal blood pressure fall, differed in duration of diabetes Similarly, we studied 50 children and adolescents, com- (8.27±2.56 and 6.43±2.55 years, respectively, P=0.0324) posed of 23 boys and 27 girls with an average age of 13.92± and metabolic control (HbA1C 9.78±2.15 and 8.25±1.54, 2.95 years. In all our diabetic patients (type 1, duration of respectively, P=0.0251). diabetes 7.38±2.7 years) we performed ambulatory blood ABPM evaluation using standard deviation scores pressure monitoring (ABPM). In 26 of our 50 patients we (SDSs): we calculated SDSs for all our patients. Statistical established hypertension, isolated daily hypertension in one calculation showed that the 95th percentile corresponds to + out of 50 (2%), daily and nocturnal hypertension in six 1.68 SDS and 97.7 percentile + 2 SDS [4]. (12%) and isolated nocturnal hypertension in 19 out of 50 TI - Ambulatory blood pressure in children with diabetes 1 JF - Pediatric Nephrology DO - 10.1007/s00467-008-0905-z DA - 2008-07-08 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/ambulatory-blood-pressure-in-children-with-diabetes-1-HurXpzkCZo SP - 2285 EP - 2286 VL - 23 IS - 12 DP - DeepDyve ER -