Brazilian pediatricians need to use national blood pressure reference values for their adolescents

Seeman, Tomáš; Šuláková, Terezie

doi:10.1016/j.jped.2019.06.003

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“…Therefore, the use of national cut-off points may be more accurate for tracking elevated BP and arterial hypertension in adolescents, considering that particularities of the population are included in the analysed data for the development of thresholds. The use of national data for classification of BP in children and adolescents is defended by other authors [10][11][12][13][14][15]25]. Moreover, as approached by El-shafie et al [10], environmental and social aspects are inherent to each and every country, and can also influence the composition of the reference population.…”

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Adolescent blood pressure classification curves and cardiometabolic risk factors: a comparison of the Brazilian and American references

Medeiros

Silva

Bloch

et al. 2022

Journal of Hypertension

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Background:The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) adolescent blood pressure (BP) percentiles were updated in 2017, and have been used as reference in Brazil since then. However, specific BP percentiles for Brazilian adolescents were recently proposed based on data from the Study of Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescents (ERICA).Objectives:To compare the prevalence of arterial hypertension according to each reference, as well as to assess the cardiometabolic risk associated with the reclassification by Brazilian BP percentiles.Methods:Data from 73 399 adolescents aged 12–17 years who participated in the ERICA study were analyzed. To assess cardiometabolic risk, 6185 adolescents who were reclassified upwards by the Brazilian reference were 1 : 1 matched with adolescents that were normotensive by both references and were of the same age, sex and height percentile. The parameters evaluated were: overweight/obesity, waist circumference, total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL-c, HDL-c, fasting glucose, HbA1c and HOMA-ir.Results:The classification according to Brazilian BP percentiles resulted in a higher prevalence of arterial hypertension (14%, 95% CI 13.2–14.8), when compared with the AAP percentiles (10.6%, 95% CI 10.0–11.2). The use of the Brazilian reference also resulted in higher prevalence of arterial hypertension in girls, teenagers ranging from 12 to 14 years, and those classified with adequate weight, overweight or obesity. In the case–control analysis, cardiometabolic risk factors were present more often in adolescents reclassified with arterial hypertension by the ERICA reference.Discussion:The use of the BP percentiles proposed by ERICA is a sensitive method for tracking Brazilian adolescents with hypertension and higher cardiometabolic risk.

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confidence: 99%

“…The use of national data for classification of BP in children and adolescents is defended by other authors [10–15,25]. Moreover, as approached by El-shafie et al [10], environmental and social aspects are inherent to each and every country, and can also influence the composition of the reference population.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%