Research Progress of Vitamin D in Adolescent Patients with Hypertension

Abstract

High blood pressure is a common chronic disease that affects the health of a large number of the world's population. With the development of society, the prevalence rate of adolescents is on the rise. It is estimated that 30% to 50% of people worldwide have low levels of vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency is also more common in adolescents. In 2019, researchers used the method of meta-analysis to include 47 kinds of literature that met the requirements of blood pressure measurement at three different time points to estimate the prevalence of hypertension in children and adolescents under 19 years old worldwide. The results showed that the prevalence of hypertension in children and adolescents increased globally in the past 20 years, with the combined prevalence of hypertension (systolic blood pressure/diastolic blood pressure ≥P95) being 4.0%, and the combined prevalence of prehypertension (P90≤systolic blood pressure/diastolic blood pressure <P95) was 9.67%. Although medical research has made significant progress in the prevention and treatment of hypertension, further research and exploration of new treatments are still needed.