
S3 Ep36: 36. Off the Cuff - Managing Pediatric Hypertension in Your Primary Care Clinic
The Cribsiders
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The Importance of Lifestyle Counseling for High Blood Pressure
In large part, most of the cases that we see, particularly in older kids, it's going to be, if they have obesity, it's related to that. So you definitely want to have a high index of suspicion of other potential causes. There are some genetic syndromes that contribute to high blood pressure, but in large part, when you see families, my experience has been, it's some learned behaviors there as well.
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