Table 1.

Prevalence of hypertension in children after renal transplantation

Author	Method of BP measurement	Definition of HT	Number of patients	Prevalence of HT
Baluarte et al. 1994 [2]	Casual BP	Use of antihypertensive drugs regardless of BP level	277	59%
Sorof et al. 1999 [3]	Casual BP	Use of antihypertensive drugs regardless of BP level	5251	58%
Lingens et al. 1997 [21]	ABPM	BP >95th centile for clinic BP or use of drugs	27	70%
Giordano et al. 2000 [23]	ABPM	BP >95th centile	37	62%
Sorof et al. 2000 [24]	ABPM	BP load >25% (95th centile for clinic BP)	42	83%
Morgan et al. 2001 [25]	ABPM	BP >95th centile for clinic BP and BP load >30%	45	62%
Serdaroglu et al. 2005 [26]	ABPM	BP >95th centile for ABPM and BP load >30%	26	73%
Seeman et al. 2006 [28]	ABPM	BP >95th centile for ABPM or use of drugs	36	89%

BP blood pressure, ABPM ambulatory blood pressure measurement, HT hypertension