Blood Pressure-to-Height Ratio as a Screening Tool for Hypertension in Children.
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OBJECTIVE To test whether blood pressure-to-height ratio (BPHR) can be used to screen for hypertension in children. METHODS Data regarding blood pressure and other variables was recorded for 2702 school children between the ages of 10-16 years as a part of a nutritional survey. RESULTS The optimal thresholds for defining hypertension in boys were 0.76 for systolic BPHR and 0.50 for diastolic BPHR; the respective threshold in girls were 0.80 and 0.52. CONCLUSION BPHR can be used as an effective screening test for diagnosing both hypertension and prehypertension in children aged 10-16 years.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Indian pediatrics
دوره 53 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016