![]() ![]() ![]() During the spring and summer of 2002, NHLBI staff and the chair of the 1996 NHBPEP Working Group report on hypertension in children and adolescents reviewed the scientific issues addressed in the background manuscripts as well as contemporary policy issues. Their manuscripts synthesized the available scientific evidence. Several prominent clinicians and scholars were asked to develop background manuscripts on selected issues related to hypertension in children and adolescents. Thereafter, the NHLBI Director directed the NHLBI staff to examine issues that might warrant a new report on children. In response to the request of the NHBPEP Chair and Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) regarding the need to update the JNC 7 report,2 some NHBPEP Coordinating Committee members suggested that the NHBPEP Working Group Report on Hypertension in Children and Adolescents should be revisited. ![]()
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