A Call for Australian Clinical Practice Guidelines for Paediatric Hypertension

At present there are no national guidelines for the detection and management of hypertension in children and adolescents in Australia. This is a significant gap given that there is substantial and growing evidence linking high blood pressure (BP) in childhood and adolescence with end organ damage, cardiovascular risk factors in adulthood, and overt cardiovascular disease in mid-adulthood. Hypertensive children and adolescents often have evidence of end organ damage, including left ventricular hypertrophy and subclinical cardiac dysfunction [1,2], increased arterial stiffness and carotid intima-media thickness [3,4], and retinal microvascular rarefaction [5].

Source: Heart, Lung and Circulation - July 24, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jonathan P. Mynard, Swasti Chaturvedi, Michael M.H. Cheung, Malcolm Clark, Genevieve Gabb, Christine Jeffries-Stokes, Garry L. Jennings, Sarah McNab, Tanya Medley, Anastasia S. Mihailidou, Markus Schlaich, Nicholas G. Larkins, Catherine Quinlan Tags: Commentary Source Type: research