Assessment of Children with Primary Monosymptomatic Enuresis in Terms of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Changes
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Clinical Research
VOLUME: 31 ISSUE: 2
P: 148 - 153
2021

Assessment of Children with Primary Monosymptomatic Enuresis in Terms of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Changes

Anatol J Gen Med Res 2021;31(2):148-153
1. Tepecik Training and Research Hospital Department of Pediatrics
2. Tepecik Training and Research Hospital Department of Pediatric Nephrology
3. İzmir Katip Celebi University Faculty of Medicine Department of Pediatric Nephrology
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Received Date: 2019-12-01T21:27:47
Accepted Date: 2021-08-18T14:27:31
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Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between blood pressure changes monitored by 24-hour blood pressure measurements and urinary incontinence in children with enuresis.

Method: The patients aged 5-18 years who received (patient group), and did not receive (control group) the diagnosis of primary monosymptomatic enuresis, and applied between January 01, 2017 and June 1, 2017, to the outpatient clinics of Izmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital Department of Pediatric Nephrology and Pediatrics constituted the study group. Demographic data, height, body weight, body mass index, family history of chronic illness, and enuresis, drug use, laboratory test results (blood biochemistry and whole blood count) and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) measurements were compared between groups.

Results: Thirty-five (62.5%, Group 1) patients and 21 (37.5%, Group 2) control subjects were included in the study. Demographic properties of the patients were not remarkable. Family history of enuresis was detected in statistically significantly greater number of patients (p=0.001). Any statistically significant difference was not noted when ABPM data of both groups were compared.

Conclusion: Discrepancies in the results of various studies concerning the autonomic system changes in enuretic patients, their reflections on blood pressures, and 24-hour blood pressure profiles, in addition to controversial views of the authors about relationship between decreasing urine output and BP depression have necessitated conduction of further studies with larger group of patients.

Keywords:
primary enuresis, blood pressure changes, ambulatory blood pressure