December 1, 1994Civil War Book Review
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in normotensive children
Population
241 healthy normotensive children aged 6 to 16 years in a primary care setting.
Design
Cross-sectional
Follow-up
24 hours
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Discussion
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Implication
May guide pediatric ABPM interpretation; leaves open prospective outcome validation before practice change.
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Population
241 healthy normotensive children aged 6 to 16 years (126 boys, mean age 11.2 +/- 2.7 years; 115 girls, mean age 10.9 +/- 2.9 years) in a primary care setting.
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Intervention
24-hour non-invasive ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) using an oscillometric device (SpaceLabs model 90207) during a regular school day.
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Outcome
Means and centiles for 24-h, daytime (0800-2200 h) and night-time (2400-0600 h) systolic and diastolic blood pressure, circadian variability, and blood pressure load.surrogate
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is feasible in children and provides useful reference values for 24-hour, daytime, and night-time blood pressure parameters.
Cite This Study
Lurbe et al. (1994) studied this question.