Diagnostic Implications of the Endocrine Society and American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines on blood pressure: associations with sex, blood pressure components, and metabolic syndrome in Korean Adolescents

Awareness of hypertensive status is essential in the era of increasing childhood and adolescent obesity. The ES guidelines might be more suitable for cardiometabolic screening in Korean adolescents than the AAP guidelines because they effectively detect hypertensive status, including DBP abnormalities.