Blood pressures vary depending on the age of your adolescent, as well as according to his/her height, weight, and gender. For example, an infant may have a quite normal blood pressure of 80/45, while that value in an adult is considered low. A teenager may have an acceptable blood pressure of 110/70, but that value would be of concern in a toddler. Generally, blood pressure is low in infancy, and rises slowly as children age. Boys' blood pressures are slightly higher than girls' are, and taller people generally have higher blood pressures than short people.

Hey that is very useful information, and of course any good doctor will know what is right for the patient he or she is treating. I think that the point that children are, for the first time every causing concern with their blood pressure reflects on the kind of lifestyles that they are leading, more sedentary and more prevalent junk food diets are causing a lot of damage to children, and I have heard, mean that for the first time a generation of children are likely to die before their parents. A pretty worrying state of affairs.