wrote and edited the manuscript.

Elevated blood pressure has been demonstrated to track from youth to adulthood and some have demon-strated an association between early-life blood pres-sure and subsequent atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. In addition, reports regarding the strength of tracking are inconsistent and the modifiable risk factors that affect the trajectory of blood pressure from youth to adulthood remain unclear. This paper comprehen-sively evaluated the existing classifications of youth hypertension and the current trends of youth hyperten-sion. Further, evidence for the consequences of hyper-tension in youth has been comprehensively evaluated. Importantly, a review of the studies examining tracking from youth to adulthood has been performed and a number of studies investigating the factors affecting tracking has also been investigated. The overall consid-eration of this body of literature highlights the vital im-portance of identifying hypertension in youth to prevent complications in adulthood. Adiposity is regarded to be a factor affecting the progression of hypertension from youth to adulthood yet there is little evidence available for other modifiable factors. It is apparent that further research is necessary within this field in order to create effective preventative strategies to target youth hyper-tension