Bonita Falkner

Evaluation of Hypertension in Older Children and Adolescents.

The association between hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors in young adult African Americans.

Birth weight as a predictor of future hypertension.

Glucose tolerance and cardiovascular risk in young adult African Americans.

Are we losing the game? Cardiovascular health in minority children.

Dysmetabolic syndrome: multiple risk factors for premature adult disease in an adolescent girl.

Obesity, smoking, and multiple cardiovascular risk factors in young adult African Americans.

Insulin resistance in African Americans.

Successful 2 years of therapy.

Plasma homocysteine concentration and blood pressure in young adult African Americans.

Obesity: clinical impact and interventions that work: an update.

Effect of birth weight on blood pressure and body size in early adolescence.

Overweight as a risk factor in children: a focus on ethnicity.

Race/ethnic issues in obesity and obesity-related comorbidities.

Obesity and high blood pressure: a clinical phenotype for the insulin resistance syndrome in African Americans.

Correlation of oral glucose tolerance test-derived estimates of insulin sensitivity with insulin clamp measurements in an African-American cohort.

Summary of the Fourth Report on the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents.

Relationship of homocysteine with cardiovascular disease and blood pressure.

Recommendations for blood pressure measurement in humans and experimental animals: Part 1: blood pressure measurement in humans: a statement for professionals from the Subcommittee of Professional and Public Education of the American Heart Association Council on High Blood Pressure Research.

Roundtable discussion: hypertension in children and adolescents.

Recommendations for blood pressure measurement in humans and experimental animals: part 1: blood pressure measurement in humans: a statement for professionals from the Subcommittee of Professional and Public Education of the American Heart Association Council on High Blood Pressure Research.

Recommendations for blood pressure measurement in humans: an AHA scientific statement from the Council on High Blood Pressure Research Professional and Public Education Subcommittee.

Effect of obesity and high blood pressure on plasma lipid levels in children and adolescents.

The metabolic syndrome--what is it and how should it be managed?

The relationship of body mass index and blood pressure in primary care pediatric patients.

The utility of fasting glucose for detection of prediabetes.

Metoprolol succinate, a selective beta-adrenergic blocker, has no effect on insulin sensitivity.

Hypertension in children.

Efficacy and safety of extended release metoprolol succinate in hypertensive children 6 to 16 years of age: a clinical trial experience.

Plasma lipid concentrations in nondiabetic African American adults: associations with insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome.

Metabolic Disease in Childhood.

Association of age and sex with cardiovascular risk factors and insulin sensitivity in overweight children and adolescents.

Stimulation of urinary TGF-beta and isoprostanes in response to hyperglycemia in humans.

What exactly do the trends mean?

Androgen excess is associated with insulin resistance and the development of diabetes in African American women.

Treatment with metoprolol succinate, a selective beta adrenergic blocker, lowers blood pressure without altering insulin sensitivity in diabetic patients.

Resistant hypertension: diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment. A scientific statement from the American Heart Association Professional Education Committee of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research.

Adiponectin regulates albuminuria and podocyte function in mice.

Resistant hypertension: diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Professional Education Committee of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research.

Blood pressure variability and classification of prehypertension and hypertension in adolescence.

Parental assessments of internalizing and externalizing behavior and executive function in children with primary hypertension.

Birth weight and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review.

Capillary rarefaction in treated and untreated hypertensive subjects.

Insulin resistance predicts future deterioration of glucose tolerance in nondiabetic young African Americans.

Functional capillary rarefaction in mild blood pressure elevation.

Refining the blood pressure phenotype in children: when does target organ damage begin?

Hypertension in children and adolescents: epidemiology and natural history.

G protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 expression and activity are associated with blood pressure in black Americans.

Should the current approach to the evaluation and treatment of high blood pressure in children be changed?

The importance of blood pressure screening in children.

Blood pressure differences by ethnic group among United States children and adolescents.

Hypertension in children and adolescents: an approach to management of complex hyper-tension in pediatric patients.

Association of capillary density and function measures with blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, and insulin sensitivity.

Parental assessment of executive function and internalizing and externalizing behavior in primary hypertension after anti-hypertensive therapy.

Regulation of transforming growth factor-beta1 by insulin in prediabetic African Americans.

Children and adolescents with obesity-associated high blood pressure.

High blood pressure in children: clinical and health policy implications.

Association of a polymorphic variant of the adiponectin gene with insulin resistance in african americans.

Alterations in capillary morphology are found in mild blood pressure elevation.

Endothelin-1 response to glucose and insulin among African Americans.

A web-based patient activation intervention to improve hypertension care: study design and baseline characteristics in the web hypertension study.

Relationships of total adiponectin and molecular weight fractions of adiponectin with free testosterone in African men and premenopausal women.

Variants in genes involved in functional pathways associated with hypertension in African Americans.

Insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome in prepubertal boys with Klinefelter syndrome.

Relationship of adipokines with insulin sensitivity in African Americans.

Pirfenidone for diabetic nephropathy.

Obesity hypertension in adolescents: epidemiology, evaluation, and management.

Relationship of blood pressure and obesity with inflammatory cytokines among African Americans.

High blood pressure and obesity increase the risk of abnormal glucose tolerance in young adult african americans.

Childhood obesity and blood pressure: back to the future?

Central blood pressures are associated with left ventricular mass index among African-American adolescents.

Prehypertension in adolescents: how high is the risk for hypertension?

Aldosterone and aldosterone: renin ratio associations with insulin resistance and blood pressure in African Americans.

Recent advances in pediatric hypertension.

High risk blood pressure and obesity increase the risk for left ventricular hypertrophy in african-american adolescents.

Progression of prehypertension to hypertension in adolescents.

The adipose tissue production of adiponectin is increased in end-stage renal disease.

A genome-wide methylation study on essential hypertension in young african american males.