High Blood Pressure in Kids Easy to Miss

High blood pressure in kids is often missed, according to a new study by Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and Harvard researchers. They studied more than 14,000 kids under the age of 18 and found that only 26 percent of those with high blood pressure were identified as such. Researchers say part of the problem is that normal blood pressure ranges change according to the child’s age, gender and height. Fewer would go undiagnosed, researchers said, if doctors had access to software programs that calculated blood pressure based on a child’s age, gender and height.

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