Blood pressure standards for pre-school children in Saudi Arabia
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Blood pressure standards for Saudi children and adolescents
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Blood pressure levels may vary in children because of genetic, ethnic and socioeconomic factors. To date, there have been no large national studies in Saudi Arabia on blood pressure in children.Therefore, we sought to establish representative blood pressure reference centiles for Saudi Arabian children and adolescents. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We selected a sample of chi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1319-2442
DOI: 10.4103/1319-2442.308337