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ArticleJournal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)2020

Height-based equations as screening tools for elevated blood pressure in the SAYCARE study.

Estela Skapino, Azahara Iris Rupérez, Sandra Restrepo-Mesa, Keisyanne Araújo-Moura, Augusto César De Moraes, Heráclito Barbosa Carvalho, Juan Carlos Aristizabal, Luis Alberto Moreno

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8 authors.

Estela SkapinoEscuela de Nutrición, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.ORCID 0000-0003-3575-3371
Azahara Iris RupérezGrowth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development (GENUD) Research Group, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza.
Sandra Restrepo-MesaFood and Human Nutrition Research Group, School of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0002-3938-4238
Keisyanne Araújo-MouraGraduate Program in Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Augusto César De MoraesGraduate Program in Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Heráclito Barbosa CarvalhoYCARE (Youth/Child cArdiovascular Risk and Environmental) Research Group Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Juan Carlos AristizabalGrupo de Investigación en Fisiología y Bioquímica (PHYSIS), Escuela de Nutrición y Dietética, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
Luis Alberto MorenoGrowth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development (GENUD) Research Group, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study evaluated the accuracy of four height-based equations: blood pressure to height ratio (BPHR), modified BPHR (MBPHR), new modified BPHR (NMBPHR), and height-based equations (HBE) for screening elevated BP in children and adolescents in the SAYCARE study. We measured height and BP of 829 children and adolescents from seven South American cities. Receiving operating curves were used to assess formula performance to diagnose elevated BP in comparison to the 2017 clinical guideline. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values (PPV, NPV) were calculated for the four screening formulas. The diagnostic agreement was evaluated with the kappa coefficient. The HBE equation showed the maximum sensitivity (100%) in children, both for boys and girls, and showed the best performance results, with a very high NPV (>99%) and high PPV (>60%) except for female children (53.8%). In adolescents, the highest sensitivity (100%) was achieved with the NMBPHR for both sexes. Kappa coefficients indicated that HBE had the highest agreement with the gold standard diagnostic method (between 0.70 and 0.75), except for female children (0.57). Simplified methods are friendlier than the percentile gold standard tables. The HBE equation showed better performance than the other formulas in this Latin American pediatric population.

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Blood PressureHypertensionAdolescentBlood Pressure DeterminationBody HeightChildCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMass Screeningblood pressurechildren and adolescentshypertensionscreening equations

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PMID33125808
PMCPMC8029788

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