Hypertension Screening Using Blood Pressure to Height Ratio
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Hypertension screening using blood pressure to height ratio.
OBJECTIVES The definition of hypertension in children is too complex to be used by medical professionals and children and their parents because of the age-, gender-, and height-specific blood pressure (BP) algorithm. The aim of this study was to simplify the pediatric BP percentile references using BP to height ratio (BPHR, equal to BP/height) for screening for prehypertension and hypertension ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PEDIATRICS
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2014-0643