Key result
International BP references for nonoverweight youth yield lower systolic but similar diastolic percentiles versus US guidelines.
Population
52,636 nonoverweight children and adolescents aged 6 to 19 years from 7 nationally representative…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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May enable consistent global prevalence estimates of elevated BP in youth; leaves open prospective validation of these references.
Cross-Sectional (n=52,636)
Yes
The study established international blood pressure reference percentiles for nonoverweight children and adolescents, providing a unified tool for global comparisons of pediatric elevated BP.
Xi et al. (2016) conducted a cross-sectional in Healthy (nonoverweight) children and adolescents (n=52,636). Age, sex, and height vs. US Fourth Report references was evaluated on Smoothed BP percentiles (50th, 90th, 95th, and 99th) by age and height. International blood pressure references for nonoverweight children and adolescents showed lower systolic BP but similar diastolic BP at the 90th and 95th percentiles compared to the US Fourth Report.
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