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  • iMedicalApps: Blood Pressure App for Kids Falls Short - Pediatric Blood Pressure app doesn't go into much detail

    In August 2017, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a new clinical practice guideline on the screening and management of high blood pressure in children and adolescents. The guideline is a massive 76-page update of their 2004 guideline and the critical tables to determine if a child is in, say, the normative 50th percentile versus the concerning 95th + 12 percentile are buried in the appendices. Furthermore, these tables utilize the patient's gender, age, and height to calculate these percentiles. One could print these out and place on their office wall or ideally use an app to parse out the data in the tables. Gregory Drake Wilson is a plant geneticist and app developer who created a new iOS app called Pediatric Blood Pressure Guide at the urging of a relative to help make sorting these data easier.

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