Update: ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children and adolescents: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

Joseph T Flynn, Stephen R Daniels, Laura L Hayman, David M Maahs, Brian W McCrindle, Mark Mitsnefes, Justin P Zachariah, Elaine M Urbina, American Heart Association Atherosclerosis, Hypertension and Obesity in Youth Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, Joseph T Flynn, Stephen R Daniels, Laura L Hayman, David M Maahs, Brian W McCrindle, Mark Mitsnefes, Justin P Zachariah, Elaine M Urbina, American Heart Association Atherosclerosis, Hypertension and Obesity in Youth Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young

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Keywords: AHA Scientific Statements; adolescents; ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; blood pressure, high; child; guideline; hypertension.

Conflict of interest statement

The American Heart Association makes every effort to avoid any actual or potential conflicts of interest that may arise as a result of an outside relationship or a personal, professional, or business interest of a member of the writing panel. Specifically, all members of the writing group are required to complete and submit a Disclosure Questionnaire showing all such relationships that might be perceived as real or potential conflicts of interest.

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Graph of mean daytime diastolic ambulatory blood pressure (BP) for girls according to height in the Central European pediatric ambulatory blood pressure monitoring database. DBP indicates diastolic blood pressure. Modified from Wühl et al with permission of the publisher. Copyright © 2002, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.