Intro -- Colophon -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Definitions -- 3 Measuring Blood Pressure in Children -- 3.1 For Whom and When? -- 3.2 How -- 3.3 Pressure Doppler -- 3.4 Percentile Tables of Arterial Pressure for Children and Adolescents -- 4 Primary and Secondary Hypertension in Children -- 4.1 Primary Hypertension -- 4.2 Secondary Hypertension -- 5 Evaluation of the Hypertensive Child -- 5.1 Objective Exam -- 5.2 Supplementary Investigations for Hypertension -- 5.3 Anormality of Target Organs in Paediatric Hypertension -- Recommendations -- 5.4 Clinical Evaluation in the Case of Confirmed Hypertension -- 6 Hypertension Therapy -- 6.1 Lifestyle-Related Measures -- 6.2 Pharmacological Therapy for Hypertension in the Child -- General Principles -- The Antihypertensive Drugs -- 6.3 Therapy of Emergencies and of Hypertensive Emergencies -- 7 Ambulatory Follow-Up of the Hypertensive Child -- 8 Appendix -- 8.1 Percentile Tables of Arterial Pressure for Children and Adolescents -- 8.2 Growth curves -- References -- Author.