Blood pressure percentiles by age and height from nonoverweight children and adolescents in Germany

Pediatrics

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Neuhauser, Hannelore K ^a   Thamm, Michael ^a   Ellert, Ute ^a   Hense, Hans Werner ^b   Schaffrath Rosario, Angelika ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Hypertension; Percentiles; Population; Population based study

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSCILLOMETRY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; OSCILLOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953315595     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-1290     Document Type: Article

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