Oscillometric Blood Pressure in Indian School Children: Simplified Percentile Tables and Charts.
作者信息
Narang Rajiv, Saxena Anita, Ramakrishnan S, Dwivedi S N, Bagga Arvind
机构信息
Departments of Cardiology, #Biostatistics and *Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to: Dr Anita Saxena, Professor, Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110 029, India.
出版信息
Indian Pediatr. 2015 Nov;52(11):939-45. doi: 10.1007/s13312-015-0749-0.
BACKGROUND
Data on blood pressure recorded by oscillometric method is limited.
OBJECTIVE
To develop simplified tables and charts of blood pressure recorded by oscillometric method in children.
DESIGN
Cross-sectional.
SETTING
Ballabhgarh, Haryana.
PARTICIPANTS
Healthy school-children.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
Blood pressure measured by oscillometric method.
RESULTS
The study group included 7,761 children (58.4% males) with mean (SD) age of 10.5 (2.8) years. Age and gender were used to create simplified percentile tables and charts, as height was seen to explain very little variability of either systolic or diastolic blood pressure. Formulae for SBP and DBP thresholds for hypertension were derived as [110 + 1.6 x age] and [79 + 0.7 x age], respectively, with 1 mm Hg to be added for females. 95th percentile values suggest simple levels indicating hypertension to be 120/80, 125/85 and 135/90 at ages of 5, 10 and 15 years, respectively.
CONCLUSIONS
Simplified reference tables and charts, formulae for SBP and DBP, and simple convenient thresholds may be useful for rapid screening of hypertension using oscillometric method.
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