TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Pediatric Hypertension A1 - MacNeill, Emily C. A2 - Schafermeyer, Robert A2 - Tenenbein, Milton A2 - Macias, Charles G. A2 - Sharieff, Ghazala Q. A2 - Yamamoto, Loren G. PY - 2014 T2 - Strange and Schafermeyer's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 4e AB - Hypertension is defined as blood pressures ≥90th percentile for age- and height-matched normal values. Stage 2 hypertension (≥99th percentile) requires urgent evaluation and treatment.The differential diagnosis of hypertension changes with the age of the patient; the clinician should focus on the cause of hypertension and evaluate the patient for signs of end-organ damage.Initiation of oral antihypertensive agents should be done in conjunction with the physician who will be following up with the patients.Patients with a hypertensive emergency should be aggressively treated and admitted to a pediatric nephrologist or other hypertension specialist. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/06 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105682571 ER -