Editing Blood pressure (section)

====Childhood====
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|+ [[Reference range]]s for blood pressure (BP) in children<ref name="ucla">[http://hr.uclahealth.org/workfiles/AgeSpecificSLM-Peds.pdf Pediatric Age Specific] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516204947/http://hr.uclahealth.org/workfiles/AgeSpecificSLM-Peds.pdf |date=2017-05-16 }}, p. 6. Revised 6/10. By Theresa Kirkpatrick and Kateri Tobias. UCLA Health System</ref>
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! scope="col" | Stage
! scope="col" | Approximate age
! scope="col" | Systolic BP,<br /> mmHg
! scope="col" | Diastolic BP,<br /> mmHg
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! scope="row" | Infants
| 0–12 months || 75–100 || 50–70
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! scope="row" | Toddlers and preschoolers
| 1–5 years || 80–110 || 50–80
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! scope="row" | School age
| 6–12 years || 85–120 || 50–80
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! scope="row" | Adolescents
| 13–18 years || 95–140 || 60–90
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In children the normal ranges for blood pressure are lower than for adults and depend on height.<ref>{{cite web|author=National Heart Lung and Blood Institute|title=Blood pressure tables for children and adolescents|url=http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/child_tbl.htm|access-date=2008-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618151357/http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/child_tbl.htm|archive-date=2014-06-18|url-status=dead}} (The median blood pressure is given by the 50th percentile and hypertension is defined by the [[Percentile|95th percentile]] for a given age, height, and sex.)</ref> Reference blood pressure values have been developed for children in different countries, based on the distribution of blood pressure in children of these countries.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Chiolero A | title = The quest for blood pressure reference values in children | journal = Journal of Hypertension | volume = 32 | issue = 3 | pages = 477–479 | date = March 2014 | pmid = 24477093 | doi = 10.1097/HJH.0000000000000109 | s2cid = 1949314 | doi-access = free }}</ref>