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BLOOD PRESSURE IN DANISH CHILDREN and ADOLESCENTS
Author(s) -
IBSEN K. KAAS
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1981.tb07168.x
Subject(s) - medicine , danish , blood pressure , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , philosophy , linguistics
. Ibsen, K. Kaas (University Paediatric Clinic, Children's Hospital, Fugle‐bakken, Copenhagen, Denmark). Blood pressure in Danish children and adolescents. Acta Paediatr Scand, 70:27, 1981.–Blood pressure was measured in 946 Danish schoolchildren aged 7 to 18 years. The children had been randomly selected and serve as an urban reference population. Blood pressure was measured in 52 different schools, with the same Random‐Zero‐Sphygmomanometer, and all pressures were measured by the same person, under standardized conditions, to eliminate as many sources of error and uncertainties as possible. For both sexes an age‐dependent significant increase in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure was observed. For both the systolic and the diastolic pressures, significant differences in blood presure measured before and after blood testing were observed.