About the need to use specific population references in estimating paediatric hypertension: Sardinian blood pressure standards (age 11-14 years)

BACKGROUND: Previous Italian paediatric blood pressure (BP) tables overestimated the prevalence of hypertension in adolescents of specific geographic areas, such as Sardinia, an island in the Mediterranean Sea. This is probably due to a not very homogeneous distribution of the subjects studied, most...

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Autores principales: Bassareo, Pier Paolo, Marras, Andrea Raffaele, Mercuro, Giuseppe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3275472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22233935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-38-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3275472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22233935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-38-1

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