Blood pressure to height ratios as simple, sensitive and specific diagnostic tools for adolescent (pre)hypertension in Nigeria
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Blood pressure to height ratios as simple, sensitive and specific diagnostic tools for adolescent (pre)hypertension in Nigeria
BACKGROUND The age-, gender-, and height-percentile requirements of the 'gold-standard' for the diagnosis of (pre)hypertension in adolescents make it time-consuming for clinicians and difficult-to-use by non-professionals. Simplified diagnostic tools are therefore needed. The use of blood pressure-to-height ratio (BPHR)--systolic BPHR (SBPHR) and diastolic BPHR (DBPHR)--has been reported in Han...
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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 diastoli...
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عنوان ژورنال: Italian Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1824-7288
DOI: 10.1186/1824-7288-37-30