Blood Pressure Percentiles in Turkish Children and Adolescents
Aim:Pediatric hypertension, a public health concern, is now commonly known worldwide to be an early risk factor for cardiovascular and renal morbidity and mortality. Early detection of hypertension is of the utmost importance to help reduce serious complications. Several distributions of country-spe...
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| description | Aim:Pediatric hypertension, a public health concern, is now commonly known worldwide to be an early risk factor for cardiovascular and renal morbidity and mortality. Early detection of hypertension is of the utmost importance to help reduce serious complications. Several distributions of country-specific blood pressure (BP) percentiles have been established worldwide. The aim of this study is to determine BP percentiles in healthy Turkish children aged 2 to 18 years.Materials and Methods:In this cross-sectional study, BP was measured in 4,984 randomly selected children and adolescents aged 2-17 years. The 50th, 90th and 95th percentile of BP percentiles were determined for gender, age and height with the use a polynomial regression model. BP percentiles at median height were compared with the US Fourth Report references.Results:The normative values of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) increased with age for both genders and varied by gender. At median height, the age-specific differences at the 90th percentile of SBP tended to be higher in boys than in girls at all ages. DBP values in girls were higher than in boys until the age of 9 years, after which boys demonstrated higher values compared to girls.Conclusion:The age and height specific reference BP values determined in this study is a novel reference for Turkish children and adolescents. Turkish BP values are lower than existing US reference values. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3975c5cb76274e52b9834aa3a6fb9c332023-02-15T16:19:37ZengGalenos YayineviJournal of Pediatric Research2147-94452587-24782020-12-017427928510.4274/jpr.galenos.2019.4803013049054Blood Pressure Percentiles in Turkish Children and AdolescentsAhmet Keskinoğlu0Pembe Keskinoglu1Su Özgür2Timur Köse3 Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Nephrology, İzmir, Turkey Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, İzmir, Turkey Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, İzmir, Turkey Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, İzmir, Turkey Aim:Pediatric hypertension, a public health concern, is now commonly known worldwide to be an early risk factor for cardiovascular and renal morbidity and mortality. Early detection of hypertension is of the utmost importance to help reduce serious complications. Several distributions of country-specific blood pressure (BP) percentiles have been established worldwide. The aim of this study is to determine BP percentiles in healthy Turkish children aged 2 to 18 years.Materials and Methods:In this cross-sectional study, BP was measured in 4,984 randomly selected children and adolescents aged 2-17 years. The 50th, 90th and 95th percentile of BP percentiles were determined for gender, age and height with the use a polynomial regression model. BP percentiles at median height were compared with the US Fourth Report references.Results:The normative values of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) increased with age for both genders and varied by gender. At median height, the age-specific differences at the 90th percentile of SBP tended to be higher in boys than in girls at all ages. DBP values in girls were higher than in boys until the age of 9 years, after which boys demonstrated higher values compared to girls.Conclusion:The age and height specific reference BP values determined in this study is a novel reference for Turkish children and adolescents. Turkish BP values are lower than existing US reference values. http://jpedres.org/archives/archive-detail/article-preview/blood-pressure-percentiles-in-turkish-children-and/37270 blood pressure percentileschildrenheight z-score |
| spellingShingle | Ahmet Keskinoğlu Pembe Keskinoglu Su Özgür Timur Köse Blood Pressure Percentiles in Turkish Children and Adolescents Journal of Pediatric Research blood pressure percentiles children height z-score |
| title | Blood Pressure Percentiles in Turkish Children and Adolescents |
| title_full | Blood Pressure Percentiles in Turkish Children and Adolescents |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Blood Pressure Percentiles in Turkish Children and Adolescents |
| title_short | Blood Pressure Percentiles in Turkish Children and Adolescents |
| title_sort | blood pressure percentiles in turkish children and adolescents |
| topic | blood pressure percentiles children height z-score |
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