Blood pressure percentiles by age and height for non-overweight Chinese children and adolescents: analysis of the china health and nutrition surveys 1991–2009

BMC Pediatrics

Guoying Huang²  Wenhao Zhou¹  Yi Cheng⁴  Yi Zhang⁴  Lin Wu²  Xuesong Li³  Fang Liu²  Weili Yan⁴ 

[1] Department of Neonatology, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China;Cardiac Center, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China;Department of Vascular Surgery, The No 5 Hospital of Shanghai, Shanghai, P.R. China;Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, 399 Wanyuan Road, Shanghai 201102, China

关键词: Reference;    Prevention;    Hypertension;    Blood pressure;    Adolescents;   

Others  :  1144236
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2431-13-195

 received in 2013-06-19, accepted in 2013-11-22,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Hypertension is an important health problem in China and raised blood pressure in children may lead to future hypertension. Accordingly we aimed to provide a reference blood pressure table for age, gender and height in Chinese children.

Methods

A reference sample of subjects was drawn from the Chinese Health and National Survey 1999–2009 aged 7–17 years after excluding overweight and obese children, the 50th, 90th and 95th percentiles of systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP)are presented corrected for height and age by gender. These values are compared with existing Chinese and US recommendations.

Results

Results for the 50th, 90th and 95th percentile of SBP and DBP for 6245 boys and 5707 girls were presented by age and height percentiles. These observations were lower than existing Chinese recommendations before 13 years of age at median heightbut went higher in those >13 years old. At same age and height, SBP levels of American children were overall higher than Chinese counterparts from this study by average 9–10 mm Hg, but DBP did not show overall or significant difference.

Conclusions

The first height-specific blood pressure reference values are proposed for Chinese children and adolescents aged 7–17 years. These are lower than existing US reference values and current Chinese cutoffs.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Yan et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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