Discussion Topic: Adolescent Screening Guidelines

Your instructor will assign you one of the topics below. For your topic, include the following:

Provide an evidence-based guideline
Discuss risk factors, diagnostic tests, evaluation, and management of the condition
Review life span considerations and adolescent versus adult considerations
Discuss screening tools (if applicable), including how they are administered, scored, and interpreted
Provide links to resources used
Topic:

Screening for Hypertension
please provide three references in APA format

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INTRODUCTION

High Blood Pressure in children and adolescents is a gradually growing problem which can persist into adulthood and has been known to accompany other health condition. Hypertension is better diagnosed as age progresses and its initiation may start in childhood, continue to adolescence then move forward to adulthood. Studies have shown that children and adolescents between the age of 3 and 18 have a risk of 3.4 percent of having pre-hypertension and a 3.6 percent risk of having hypertension.

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