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Table 7. Major Risk Factors and Conditions in Children
and Adolescents
Criteria Moderate Risk High Risk
Body mass index
percentile
≥95th – 96th percentile ≥97th
Hypertension High blood pressure
without medication
High blood pressure with
medication
Cigarette smoking — Current smoker
HDL-C <40 mg/dL —
Predisposing medical
conditions
Kawasaki disease with
regressed coronary
aneurysms
Kawasaki disease with current
coronary aneurysms
Chronic inflammatory
disease
a
Type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus
HIV infection Post-orthotopic heart transplant
Nephrotic syndrome Chronic kidney disease/end stage
renal disease/post-renal transplant
a
Systemic lupus erythematous, rheumatoid arthritis
Children and Adolescents
