title: Blood Pressure-to-Height Ratio as a Screening Tool for Hypertension in Children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To test whether blood pressure-to-height ratio (BPHR) can be used to screen for hypertension in children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data regarding blood pressure and other variables was recorded for 2702 school children between the ages of 10-16 years as a part of a nutritional survey.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The optimal thresholds for defining hypertension in boys were 0.76 for systolic BPHR and 0.50 for diastolic BPHR; the respective threshold in girls were 0.80 and 0.52.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  BPHR can be used as an effective screening test for diagnosing both hypertension and prehypertension in children aged 10-16 years.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pediatrics and Endocrinology, Sher-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, JK, India. Corresponding to: Dr Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat, Department of Pediatrics, Sher-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Kashmir, JK, India. mbhat47@rediffmail.com.
authors.forename: Asif
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: Syed Wajid
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Shariq
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Massodi
authors.forename: Mushtaq Ahmad
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bhat
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D001827:Body Height / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male