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...

In 2004, the National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents recommended a new designation of prehypertension for children with mildly elevated blood pressure (BP). This description was intended to help identify children most at risk for the development of persistent hypertension for whom targeted prevention programs would be most ...

Introduction. Arterial pressure has significant diurnal fluctuations, reaching its minimum and maximum values at certain hours of the day. For a complete characterization arterial hypertension in recent years, method daily monitoring is most often used, which makes it possible to determine forms disease (labile stable), circadian rhythms variability. The use this children may be even more impor...

To assess the burden associated with hypertension, reliable estimates for the prevalence of pediatric hypertension are vital. For this cross-sectional study of 237,248 youths aged 6 to 17 years without indication of secondary hypertension, blood pressure (BP) was classified according to age, sex, and height using standards from the Fourth Report on the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of Hi...

Prehypertension (PHT) leads to hypertension (HT) and cardiovascular (CVD) disease risk. Identification of CVD risk factors in PHT will reduce the burden of HT and CVD in the population. Three hundred staffs of a medical college were screened for prehypertension (PHT). Sixty five PHT and 91 normotensives (NT) were enrolled. Anthropometric measurements and fasting blood glucose and lipid variable...