High Blood Pressure In Children Frequently Undiagnosed

In this week's JAMA Matthew Hansen, M.D., an OHSU resident in emergency medicine, conducted the study with colleagues while he was a medical student at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. They reviewed the electronic medical records of more than 14,000 children ages 3 to 18 who were seen by a pediatrician at least three times for well-child visits between June 1999 and September 2006. They found that found that only about one in four children with hypertension is diagnosed with the condition.