Key result
The management of hypertension in children and adolescents requires investigating primary causes, identifying co-morbidities, and instituting evidence-based lifestyle or pharmacological therapies.
Provides a review of the necessary investigations and evidence-based management strategies for pediatric hypertension.
Once the diagnosis of hypertension has been established in a child or an adolescent, the investigations to be requested need to include a search for the primary cause when secondary hypertension is suspected, the identification of associated and co-morbid conditions and the evaluation of target-organ damage. Instituting therapy should be based on clear indications, the choice of lifestyle and/or pharmacological treatment should be guided by the pathophysiology of the underlying mechanism and based on evidence-based guidelines.
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Narchi Hassib (2011) conducted a review in Hypertension. The management of hypertension in children and adolescents requires investigating primary causes, identifying co-morbidities, and instituting evidence-based lifestyle or pharmacological therapies.
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