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Blood pressure values in healthy Malaysian children aged 6-12 years
P W Chan1, B Cheong, K Nadarajan
1Department of Paediatrics, University Malaya Medical Center, 50603 Kuala Lumpur.
The Medical Journal of Malaysia
|February 28, 2001
Abstract:
Blood pressure examination was done manually in 1756 healthy school children aged 6-12 years. Korotkoff 1 represented the systolic blood pressure (SBP) and Korotkoff 5 was taken as the diastolic blood pressure (DBP). Blood pressure percentile charts were then drawn up based on age group and sex regardless of ethnicity. There was a significant correlation between both SBP and DBP to increasing height, weight and body mass index.