TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Hypertension A1 - Traum, Avram Z. A1 - Somers, Michael J.G. A2 - Zaoutis, Lisa B. A2 - Chiang, Vincent W. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e AB - Although hypertension is a relatively uncommon disorder in pediatrics, its identified incidence is increasing, likely related to both heightened clinician awareness of the problem and increasing rates of obesity in children mediating earlier onset of high blood pressure.1-4 With adults, most hypertension is deemed to be primary or “essential” in etiology and often no diagnostic evaluation ensues. In children, on the other hand, primary hypertension has long been a diagnosis of exclusion and there has been consensus that hypertensive children need to undergo an evaluation to exclude any secondary causes to their hypertension, especially in the setting of significantly elevated blood pressures for a child’s age and body habitus. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146113675 ER -