Email Updates
Study
Underdiagnosis of hypertension in children and adolescents.
February 3, 2011
Hansen M, Gunn PW, Kaelber DC. JAMA. 2007;298(8):874-9.
In this study, only one-quarter of children with high blood pressure were correctly diagnosed with hypertension. The authors attribute this to two factors: pediatricians' lack of knowledge of the normal blood pressure range for different ages and lack of awareness of patients' previous blood pressure measurements.
