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August 22, 2017PEDIATRICS

Clinical Practice Guideline for Screening and Management of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents

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Children and adolescents

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Authors

JFJoseph T. FlynnUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillDKDavid C. KaelberPreventive CardiologyCBCarissa M. Baker‐SmithPediatric Cardiology

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Implication

Supports adoption of new normative BP tables in children; extends prior guidelines but requires prospective outcome validation.

Key Points

  • The aim is to update screening and management guidelines for hypertension in children and adolescents.
  • Review of nearly 15,000 articles published between January 2004 and July 2016
  • Development of 30 Key Action Statements and 27 additional recommendations
  • Endorsement by the American Heart Association for patient-centered care.
  • Introduction of the term 'elevated blood pressure' replacing 'prehypertension'
  • Recommendations for screening only at preventive care visits
  • Expanded role for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in pediatric hypertension.

Structured PICO

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Population
Children and adolescents
I
Intervention
Screening and management of high blood pressure

This updated clinical practice guideline modernizes the screening, diagnosis, and management of high blood pressure in children and adolescents, aligning adolescent classifications with adult guidelines.

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Flynn et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a0112486bd030452234465https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2017-1904

Topics

Hypertension management
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