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[Blood pressure in the child and the adolescent. Effect of age, sex, height, weight and heart rate]. 1980

J P Aullen, and M Hucher, and J C Desbois, and A Herrault

6,391 school children in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis were studied to determine the normal limits of blood pressure, its variations with age and sex, and its correlations with height, weight and heart rate. Blood pressure has a nearly perfect Gaussian distribution. Average blood pressures increase linearly with age according to sex. Boys have higher systolic blood pressures after the age of 14 and higher diastolic blood pressures after the age of 16. The estimated incidence of hypertension was 3,1% systolic hypertension and 2.2% diastolic hypertension. There was a very close relationship between systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Average systolic and diastolic blood pressures increased very significantly with height and weight, in both sex. Heart rate decreased with age. The average blood pressure was not related to heart rate. Blood pressure charts, related to age, sex, height and weight, allow follow-up of arterial blood pressure as children grow up and may lead to a better understanding of the mechanism of hypertension.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D006973 Hypertension Persistently high systemic arterial BLOOD PRESSURE. Based on multiple readings (BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION), hypertension is currently defined as when SYSTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently greater than 140 mm Hg or when DIASTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently 90 mm Hg or more. Blood Pressure, High,Blood Pressures, High,High Blood Pressure,High Blood Pressures
D008297 Male Males
D001794 Blood Pressure PRESSURE of the BLOOD on the ARTERIES and other BLOOD VESSELS. Systolic Pressure,Diastolic Pressure,Pulse Pressure,Pressure, Blood,Pressure, Diastolic,Pressure, Pulse,Pressure, Systolic,Pressures, Systolic
D001827 Body Height The distance from the sole to the crown of the head with body standing on a flat surface and fully extended. Body Heights,Height, Body,Heights, Body
D001835 Body Weight The mass or quantity of heaviness of an individual. It is expressed by units of pounds or kilograms. Body Weights,Weight, Body,Weights, Body
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D003971 Diastole Post-systolic relaxation of the HEART, especially the HEART VENTRICLES. Diastoles
D005260 Female Females
D006339 Heart Rate The number of times the HEART VENTRICLES contract per unit of time, usually per minute. Cardiac Rate,Chronotropism, Cardiac,Heart Rate Control,Heartbeat,Pulse Rate,Cardiac Chronotropy,Cardiac Chronotropism,Cardiac Rates,Chronotropy, Cardiac,Control, Heart Rate,Heart Rates,Heartbeats,Pulse Rates,Rate Control, Heart,Rate, Cardiac,Rate, Heart,Rate, Pulse
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man

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