Absolute height-specific thresholds to identify elevated blood pressure in children

Chiolero, Arnaud; Paradis, Gilles; Simonetti, Giacomo D; Bovet, Pascal (2013). Absolute height-specific thresholds to identify elevated blood pressure in children. Journal of hypertension, 31(6), pp. 1170-4. Hagerstown, Md.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 10.1097/HJH.0b013e32836041ff

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Identification of children with elevated blood pressure (BP) is difficult because of the multiple sex, age, and height-specific thresholds to define elevated BP. We propose a simple set of absolute height-specific BP thresholds and evaluate their performance to identify children with elevated BP in two different populations.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Endocrinology (DFKE) > Clinic of Paediatric Medicine

UniBE Contributor:

Simonetti, Giacomo

ISSN:

0263-6352

Publisher:

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Language:

English

Submitter:

Anette van Dorland

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 14:41

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:12

Publisher DOI:

10.1097/HJH.0b013e32836041ff

PubMed ID:

23552125

Web of Science ID:

000318543900016

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/16573 (FactScience: 224241)

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