Utilization of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Children and Adolescents With Hypertension

Abstract

Because of the limited accuracy of office blood pressure (BP), the 2017 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) hypertension guidelines recommend that children with high clinic BP undergo ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) to confirm hypertension and that clinicians strongly consider ABPM in children with risk factors for masked hypertension, like obesity and chronic kidney disease (CKD).1 Here we describe ABPM utilization in children with hypertension and children with conditions associated with masked hypertension.