Table 3.

Hypertension (HT) control in children after renal transplantation using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM)

Author	Definition of uncontrolled HT	Number of treated patients (% of all patients)	Prevalence of uncontrolled HT	Mean number of antihypertensive drugs per treated patient
Lingens et al. 1997 [21]	Only daytime BP >95th centile for ambulatory BP despite use of drugs	17 (63%)	65% (11/17)	n.d.
Giordano et al. 2000 [23]	Daytime, nighttime, or 24-h BP >95th centile despite use of drugs	25 (68%)	72% (18/25)	1.5
Morgan et al. 2001 [25]	Daytime BP >95th centile for clinic BP or nighttime BP >95th centile for clinic BP minus 10% despite use of drugs	22 (49%)	82% (18/22)	1.4
Serdaroglu et al. 2005 [26]	Daytime or nighttime BP >95th centile for ABPM and BP load >30% despite use of drugs	16 (62%)	81% (13/16)	1.0
Seeman et al. 2006 [28]	Daytime or nighttime BP >95th centile despite use of drugs	31 (86%)	45% (14/31)	2.1

n.d. not determined