AAP Pediatric Hypertension Guidelines
Diagnoses hypertension in pediatric patients; official guideline of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Use in children aged 1-17 years. Not for use in patients with low blood pressure. Recommendations are based on AAP's 2017 Clinical Practice Guideline (Table 3). Note that cutoffs reported in the calculator may vary slightly from the published tables, as the calculator accommodates for ages between whole numbers (e.g. 5.5 years), and the tables use simplified values to account for ages between whole numbers. For children ≥13 years of age, this calculator has been adjusted to meet definitions presented in the 2017 AHA/ACC hypertension guidelines for adults.
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Bernard Rosner, PhD, is a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. His work has had cardiovascular, pulmonary, ophthalmologic, oncologic, and nutritional applications. Dr. Rosner's primary research interests involve statistical modeling of longitudinal data, analysis of clustered continuous, binary, and ordinal data, and methods for the adjustment of regression models to address measurement error.
Joseph T. Flynn, MD, MS, is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he holds the Dr. Robert O. Hickman Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nephrology. He is also chief of the division of nephrology at Seattle Children’s Hospital, and has served as president of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, on the Working Group of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program, and as co-chair of an American Academy of Pediatrics committee focused on childhood hypertension. Dr. Flynn’s research interests involve the epidemiology and treatment of childhood hypertension, as well as cardiovascular complications of pediatric chronic kidney disease.
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