Approaches to Disease Management: Hypertension

You see a 3-year-old with hypertension (documented on three different visits) in your primary care clinic.
• Describe the workup, differential diagnoses, assessment, and management.
• How would your plan of care be different if the child were 10 years old?
• What risk factor counseling and advice would you include?

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• McCance Burns, C. E., Dunn, M. A., Brady, A. M., Starr, B. N., Blosser, G. C., & Garzon, L. D. (2017). Pediatric Primary Care. (6th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.
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• McCance Burns, C. E., Dunn, M. A., Brady, A. M., Starr, B. N., Blosser, G. C., & Garzon, L. D. (2017).
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Supplemental Materials & Resources
1. Feber, J., & Ahmed, M. (2010). Hypertension in children: New trends and challenges. Clinical Science, 119(4), 151-161.
2. Bradley, J. S., Byington, C. L., Shah, S. S., Alverson, B., Carter, E. R., Harrison, C., Kaplan, S. L., Mace, S. E., McCracken, G. H., Moore, M. R., St Peter, S. D., Stockwell, J. A., & Swanson, J. T. (2011). The management of community-acquired pneumonia in infants and children older than 3 months of age: Clinical practice guidelines by the pediatric infectious diseases society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 53(7), e25-e76.
3. Blanchard, S. S., & Czinn, S. J. (2015). Peptic ulcer disease in children. In R. M. Kliegman, B. M. Stanton, J. S. Geme, & N. F. Schor (Eds.), Nelson textbook of pediatrics, 2-Volume set (19th ed., pp. 1291-1293). Elsevier Health Sciences.

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