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March 31, 2015Frontiers in PediatricsOpen Access

Blood Pressure Profile in School Children (6–16 Years) of Southern India: A Prospective Observational Study

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Population

3,302 apparently healthy, asymptomatic urban school children in the age group of 6-16 years from Southern…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

MSMohammad SayeemuddinRainbow Children's HospitalDSDeepak SharmaUniversity of LouisvilleAPAakash PanditaSahara Hospital

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Implication

Supports tailored BP nomograms for Indian children; leaves open prospective validation of diagnostic impact.

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Population
3,302 apparently healthy, asymptomatic urban school children (1,658 boys and 1,644 girls) in the age group of 6-16 years from Southern India.
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Outcome
Distribution pattern of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) at different ages, sex, weight, height, and BMI, and prevalence of hypertension.surrogate

Blood pressure in Indian school children increases significantly with age, weight, height, and BMI, highlighting the need for height- and age-specific nomograms to accurately diagnose pediatric hypertension.

Limitations

  • Study population was from higher socioeconomic class, cannot extrapolate to lower and middle income groups
  • Lack of follow up of the children who had hypertension
  • Did not perform multi-regression analysis on the data, possible unseen confounders

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Sayeemuddin et al. (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2201d69e220ae9ef493993https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2015.00024
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