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Establishing International Blood Pressure References Among Nonoverweight Children and Adolescents Aged 6 to 17 Years

Xi B , Zong X , Kelishadi R , Hong YM , Khadilkar A , Steffen LM Show all authors , Nawarycz T , Krzywińska-Wiewiorowska M , Aounallah-Skhiri H , Bovet P , Chiolero A , Pan H , Litwin M , Poh BK , Sung RY , So HK , Schwandt P , Haas GM , Neuhauser HK , Marinov L , Galcheva SV , Motlagh ME , Kim HS , Khadilkar V , Krzyżaniak A , Romdhane HB , Heshmat R , Chiplonkar S , Stawińska-Witoszyńska B , El Ati J , Qorbani M , Kajale N , Traissac P , Ostrowska-Nawarycz L , Ardalan G , Parthasarathy L , Zhao M , Zhang T , International Child Blood Pressure References Establishment Consortium
Circulation, 2016 Jan 26;133(4):398-408.
PMID: 26671979 DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.017936

Abstract

Several distributions of country-specific blood pressure (BP) percentiles by sex, age, and height for children and adolescents have been established worldwide. However, there are no globally unified BP references for defining elevated BP in children and adolescents, which limits international comparisons of the prevalence of pediatric elevated BP. We aimed to establish international BP references for children and adolescents by using 7 nationally representative data sets (China, India, Iran, Korea, Poland, Tunisia, and the United States).

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