Many pediatric hypertension specialists may not warm to a screening proposition that retreats from the notion that every child and teen 3 years old and up should have their blood pressure checked at least annually. But many of those specialists also realize that what’s now done has a lot of problems and that a more user-friendly approach is needed. As an expert panel works to produce a revision to the Fourth Report next year (which will not be the Fifth Report as the update is now outside the NHLBI purview), changes in how pediatric hypertension will be approached in the future seem likely.
Dr. Brady, Dr. Steinberger, Dr. Falkner, Dr. Daniels, Dr. Riley, Dr. Filer, and Dr. Trachtman had no disclosures.
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