Questions About Hypertension

The commentary "The Pediatrician and Hypertension"1 emphasized a most important but still much ignored aspect of health maintenance of children. I feel that two points need to be emphasized further. First, physicians measuring blood pressure in children should be aware that the three sizes of cuff normally available for newborn, infants, and children may be inadequate and could potentially lead to an overestimation of the blood pressure. This situation arises because the bladder is frequently too short and not because it is too narrow.