Blood pressure reference tables for children and adolescents of Karnataka

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 491-501

  Krishna, Pushpa ^a   Prasannakumar, K M ^a   Desai, Nagaraj ^a   Thennarasu, K ^b  

^a M S RAMAIAH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Children; Reference

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART SOUND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33745892605     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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