Blood pressure values in healthy normal weight children and adolescents in eight European countries: auscultatory and oscillometric measurements

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11130/25:10509987

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2025.06.011" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2025.06.011</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2025.06.011" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ejim.2025.06.011</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Blood pressure values in healthy normal weight children and adolescents in eight European countries: auscultatory and oscillometric measurements

Original language description

Aim: The aim of the study is to provide BP values adjusted for sex, age and height in a large sample of healthy and normal weight children and adolescents 3-17 years in eight European countries, using standardized BP measurement by oscillometric and auscultatory methods. Subjects and methods: In 38.374 children (20.189 girls) BP values were measured following the European Society of Hypertension guidelines. To derive BP percentiles the estimated influences of age and height simultaneously on BP levels were estimated. Results: The estimated BP values corresponding to 90th, 95th, and 99th systolic and diastolic percentiles according to height percentiles, age and sex were calculated. In both methods, the 90th and 95th percentiles of systolic blood pressure, tended to increase with both age and height, higher in boys than in girls without differences in diastolic blood pressure. The study illustrates the differences in 95th Blood Pressure percentile obtained by oscillometric and auscultatory methods in both sexes at the 50th height percentile. The threshold corresponding to 95th percentile at age 13 is close to 130/80 mmHg in both sexes and measurement methods at median height and at age 17 it is around 140/90 mmHg for boys. Conclusions: The progressive increment of blood pressure in children across age is largely influenced by height. In boys blood pressure values still increase after 13 years old, while in girls the BP increment after this age was lower. Differences in systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure among the two used methods are minimal except in the oldest age group.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30209 - Paediatrics

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Internal Medicine

ISSN

0953-6205

e-ISSN

1879-0828

Volume of the periodical

139

Issue of the periodical within the volume

article 106382

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

1-11

UT code for WoS article

001569350200009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105008794630