The researchers said electronic medical records have the potential to be programmed to automatically "review current and prior blood pressures, ages, heights, and sex to determine if abnormal blood pressure criteria had been met."

People generally do not pay attention to children's complaints. Unless they are burning with a fever or vomiting most parents will ignore their children's complains, and go on the assumption that they are healthy. A lot of really bad habits (like bad eating habits, which can lead to hypertension) begin in your childhood.

People generally do not pay attention to children's complaints.

May be so in the US.

Here in Ireland our health service is such that the opposite is true. Parents bring their kids to the doctor for every sniffle. I believe that 99.9% of parents are all caring about their kids, US or whereever. The cost is the obvious difference, not the parents.