title: [Percentile curves of arterial tension in school children from Mexico City].
abstract: Hypertensive heart disease has an important place among the cardiovascular diseases. There are evidences that the behavior of arterial tension (AT) in children can predict the possible appearance of arterial hypertension (AH) in the adult. The foreign percentile curves, when applied to our population, show either under or overestimation of the cases. This is the reason for the need of having our own percentile tables. In this study we found different mean values for systolic and diastolic arterial tension (SAT and DAT) between the sexes, being these higher for the males, but these differences had no statistical significance. We present percentile tables for AT per sex against age, weight, height and corpulence index (CI). According to WHO, when a child has three measurement over the 95 percentile he should be considered AH. The tables for height, weight, and CI should be used only under special circumstances.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Güemez-Sandoval
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Moreno-Altamirano
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kuri-Morales
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alba-Leonel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Osorio
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Orozco-Rivadeneyra
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: de León-Ramírez
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D012015:Reference Standards
vernacular_title: Curvas percentilares de tensión arterial en escolares de la Ciudad de México.