Percentiles de presión arterial de niños y adolescentes de Santiago de Cali-Colombia / Blood pressure centiles for Santiago de Cali-Colombian children and adolescents
La presentación de valores percentiles permite clasificar la presión arterial de niños y adolescentes de Cali-Colombia y comparar con sus contemporáneos. La presión arterial alta para la edad debería definirse en percentiles por encima del p95 y la presión arterial alta y normal podría definirse entre el p90 y p95...
Aim. To determine age- and sex- specific centile values of Blood pressure for urban Santiago de Cali-Colombiachildren and adolescentsaged 1016 years. Material and Methods. The sample (n=1773) consisted of 865 boys and 908 girls from the crosssectional populationsurvey, IFRECNTEC Study (Identificación de Factores de Riesgo de Enfermedades Crónicas No Transmisibles del Adulto en la Población Escolarizada de 6 a 18 años en el Municipio de Cali, Colombia) for whom the data for Blood pressure was recorded. Smoothed age- and sex- specific 5th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th and 95th Centile values where derived using Least Mean Squares regression. Results. Blood pressure in both sexes was similar in childhood, rising progressively with age and more rapidly during puberty. Systolic and Diastolic pressurerose faster and was appreciably higher in men than in adolescentswomen. Discussion and Conclusion. These centiles increase our knowledge of blood pressure data in contemporary Colombian children and young people. High blood pressure for age should be defi ned as blood pressure above the 95th centile, and high-normal blood pressure for age as blood pressure between the 90th and 95th centiles...