Blood pressure nomograms for school children in Iran.
Currently there are no blood pressure (BP) nomograms based on local data available in Iran. In order to obtain data on BP distribution in Iranian school children, 8848 children aged 7-12 years were studied in Tehran. BP was found to increase with age. Both systolic and diastolic BP showed a positive correlation with height and weight in both sexes. The systolic and diastolic BP in boys and girls were not significantly different. As the sample was representative of Iranian school children, reference standard curves were constructed by modeling data using fractional polynomial. The 50th and 95th percentiles of systolic and diastolic BP of Iranian children were compared for each age with the results reported in the study of the Second Task Force. These percentiles were different from the Second Task Force study. Environmental and genetic determinants are likely to be responsible for the differences. The differences show that the use of local BP nomograms is necessary for assessing the BP levels in Iranian children.
Ataei
Neamatollah
N
Department of Pediatric Nephrology, The Children's Hospital Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. ataei_nm@yahoo.com
Aghamohammadi
Asghar
A
Yousefi
Effat
E
Hosseini
Mostafa
M
Nourijelyani
Keramat
K
Tayebi
Mehdy
M
Khorasani
Gholamhasan
G
Chavoshian
Arash
A
Hosseini
Mohsen
M
Yousefi
Mohammad
M
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