title: Simple formulas for screening abnormal blood pressure in children and adolescents.
abstract: Childhood hypertension has been extensively focused on in the past decades because of its increasing incidence, which is related to physicians' awareness and the increasing number of obese children. Age, gender, and body size are the main determinants of blood pressure in children. The revised childhood blood pressure tables of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program are a prerequisite for classification of childhood hypertension. Although these tables provide a reasonable basis, they are intricate and height percentile is needed for final diagnosis. Many attempts have been done to decrease such complexity. We present new formulas that are concise and memorable, and will help physicians to screen prehypertensive and hypertensive pediatric patients.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran. badeli@gums.ac.ir
authors.forename: Hamidreza
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Badeli
authors.forename: Seyed Aidin
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Sajedi
authors.forename: Maryam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shakiba
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000465:Algorithms; D000886:Anthropometry; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors