SynthesisJournal of human hypertension2016
Performance of blood pressure-to-height ratio as a screening tool for elevated blood pressure in pediatric population: a systematic meta-analysis.
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- A proposal to simplify the definition of pediatric hypertension: bridging the gap between perception and action.BMC medicine · 2024Article
- Blood Pressure in Childhood and Adolescence.American journal of hypertension · 2021Review
- Are Body Composition Parameters Better than Conventional Anthropometric Measures in Predicting Pediatric Hypertension?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Performance of modified blood pressure-to-height ratio for diagnosis of hypertension in children: The CASPIAN-V study.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2020Article
- The challenge of simplifying blood pressure screening in children and adolescents.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2020Article
- Using blood pressure height index to define hypertension among secondary school adolescents in southwestern Uganda.Journal of human hypertension · 2020Article
- A simple table based on height to assess elevated and high blood pressure in children.Journal of human hypertension · 2019Article
- Blood pressure-to-height ratio as a screening indicator of elevated blood pressure among children and adolescents in Chongqing, China.Journal of human hypertension · 2017Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to assess the performance of the blood pressure-to-height ratio (BPHR) for screening elevated blood pressure (BP) in children and adolescents using a meta-analysis of eligible published studies. We retrieved studies that investigated the performance of the BPHR for identifying elevated BP from Pubmed and other databases. We performed meta-analyses by subgroups of sex, age and ethnicity using a fixed or random effect model based on whether there was between-study heterogeneity. A total of 13 publications including 262 830 children and adolescents aged 6-18 years on BPHR and a total of three publications including 95 343 children on the modified BPHR were included in this meta-analysis. The summary results suggested that BPHR performed well to identify pre-high BP and high BP for children aged 6-11 years and adolescents aged 12-18 years. The performance of BPHR was perfect for identifying severe high BP in adolescents aged 12-18 years. However, the modified BPHR did not improve accuracy for screening high BP in children aged 6-12 years. In summary, BPHR performed well for identifying elevated BP in children and adolescents, independently of sex, age and ethnicity group. In addition, the modified BPHR performed similarly with BPHR for screening high BP in childhood.
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