High blood pressure
11/10/09
we have been told our 6yr old son has high blood pressure which we have 2 monitor the reading given was 100/62 please can you tell me if this is high and what the normal reading his for a child his age thanks
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Hi Malco,
Average blood pressure for a 6 year-old boy is around 96/55 mm Hg.
Here is a link to a chart of children's blood pressure - http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/child_tbl.pdf
You can see looking at the chart (which may be confusing!), if your son is tall (i.e. 95th percentile) average blood pressure increases to 100/57 mm Hg.
All the best,
Lisa Nelson RD
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