About the need to use specific population references in estimating paediatric hypertension: Sardinian blood pressure standards (age 11-14 years)
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Previous Italian paediatric blood pressure (BP) tables overestimated the prevalence of hypertension in adolescents of specific geographic areas, such as Sardinia, an island in the Mediterranean Sea. This is probably due to a not very...
Main Authors: | Bassareo Pier, Marras Andrea, Mercuro Giuseppe |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2012-01-01
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Series: | Italian Journal of Pediatrics |
Online Access: | http://www.ijponline.net/content/38/1/1 |
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