Performance of Eleven Simplified Methods for the Identification of Elevated Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents.

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serval:BIB_333F57D42AD5
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Performance of Eleven Simplified Methods for the Identification of Elevated Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents.
Journal
Hypertension
Author(s)
Ma C., Kelishadi R., Hong Y.M., Bovet P., Khadilkar A., Nawarycz T., Krzywińska-Wiewiorowska M., Aounallah-Skhiri H., Zong X., Motlagh M.E., Kim H.S., Khadilkar V., Krzyżaniak A., Ben Romdhane H., Heshmat R., Chiplonkar S., Stawińska-Witoszyńska B., El Ati J., Qorbani M., Kajale N., Traissac P., Ostrowska-Nawarycz L., Ardalan G., Parthasarathy L., Zhao M., Xi B.
ISSN
1524-4563 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0194-911X
Publication state
Published
Issued date
09/2016
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
68
Number
3
Pages
614-620
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Comparative Study ; Journal Article ; Multicenter Study
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
The identification of elevated blood pressure (BP) in children and adolescents relies on complex percentile tables. The present study compares the performance of 11 simplified methods for assessing elevated or high BP in children and adolescents using individual-level data from 7 countries. Data on BP were available for a total of 58 899 children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years from 7 national surveys in China, India, Iran, Korea, Poland, Tunisia, and the United States. Performance of the simplified methods for screening elevated or high BP was assessed with receiver operating characteristic curve (area under the curve), sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value. When pooling individual data from the 7 countries, all 11 simplified methods performed well in screening high BP, with high area under the curve values (0.84-0.98), high sensitivity (0.69-1.00), high specificity (0.87-1.00), and high negative predictive values (≥0.98). However, positive predictive value was low for most simplified methods, but reached ≈0.90 for each of the 3 methods, including sex- and age-specific BP references (at the 95th percentile of height), the formula for BP references (at the 95th percentile of height), and the simplified method relying on a child's absolute height. These findings were found independently of sex, age, and geographical location. Similar results were found for simplified methods for screening elevated BP. In conclusion, all 11 simplified methods performed well for identifying high or elevated BP in children and adolescents, but 3 methods performed best and may be most useful for screening purposes.

Keywords
Adolescent, Age Factors, Blood Pressure Determination/methods, Child, Child Health, Cross-Sectional Studies, Databases, Factual, Female, Humans, Hypertension/diagnosis, Hypertension/epidemiology, Male, Mass Screening/methods, Monitoring, Physiologic/methods, Risk Assessment, Task Performance and Analysis, adolescents, children, epidemiology, high blood pressure, hypertension, methodology
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Web of science
Open Access
Yes
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07/10/2016 13:17
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20/08/2019 14:19
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