Single blood pressure chart for children up to 13 years to improve the recognition of hypertension based on existing normative data

Archives of Disease in Childhood
Macolm G Coulthard

Abstract

To produce a single 'growth-chart-style' blood pressure (BP) chart with clear diagnostic thresholds to assist paediatricians to make prompt and accurate diagnoses of hypertension. The well-established but complex published data on normal BP ranges in prepubertal children were identified and analysed to determine if it was possible to produce a single, user-friendly, colour-coded chart, showing diagnostic hypertension thresholds for systolic and diastolic BP without losing clinically important information. There were sufficient published normative childhood BP data available to define systolic and diastolic BP centiles from term onwards but only sufficient to determine systolic BP centiles from 28 weeks of gestation to term. Up to 13 years of age, it was possible to combine boys' and girls' data without loss of precision and to define the threshold between stage 1 and stage 2 (severe) hypertension as the 95th centile +12 mm Hg. This allowed the production of single colour-coded charts for systolic and diastolic BP and to advise on making simple adjustments for the impact of stature on individual children's results. A simplified, integrated BP chart with colour-coded diagnostic thresholds was produced to assist the prompt diagnos...Continue Reading

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