title: Blood pressure references for Polish children and adolescents.
abstract: The objective of this study was to develop age- and gender-specific reference ranges for blood pressure in a large national database on blood pressure levels throughout childhood and adolescence in young Poles. A prospective cross-sectional study was performed in 2002-2005 in the representative sampling sites, selected randomly from the entire Poland. Altogether, 6,447 school pupils, aged 7-18 years, were involved in the study of which 3,176 were boys and 3,271 were girls. Statistical analysis was performed using STATISTICA for Windows 7.1. The normal range of blood pressure, determined by age and the category of body height percentiles, revealed percentiles values which might serve as reference values to identify cases of high normal blood pressure (the mean blood pressure between 90th and 95th percentiles for age and gender) and hypertension (the mean blood pressure equals or exceeds the 95th percentiles on at least three occasions).
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Dabrowskiego 79, 60-529 Poznan, Poland.
authors.forename: Alicja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Krzyzaniak
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krzywińska-Wiewiorowska
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Stawińska-Witoszyńska
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaczmarek
authors.forename: Lukasz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Krzych
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kowalska
authors.forename: Ilona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Szilágyi-Pagowska
authors.forename: Iwona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Palczewska
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karch
authors.forename: Jadwiga
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jośko
authors.forename: Lidia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ostrowska-Nawarycz
authors.forename: Tadeusz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nawarycz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000886:Anthropometry; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001827:Body Height; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003971:Diastole; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012015:Reference Standards; D012016:Reference Values; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013599:Systole