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Blood pressure percentile charts to identify high or low blood pressure in children

BACKGROUND: The goal was to develop familiar blood pressure (BP) charts representing BP percentile curves similar to CDC growth charts to improve screening of both high and low BP in children. METHODS: Since height accounts for substantially more BP variability than age and is a more direct measure...

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Autores principales: Banker, Ashish, Bell, Cynthia, Gupta-Malhotra, Monesha, Samuels, Joshua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4950817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27430884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-016-0633-7