Table 1.

Simplified methods for the identification of high blood pressure in children and adolescents

A. Simplified table displaying the 95th percentile values of blood pressure (mmHg) based on the Fourth Report at the 5th, 50th and 95th percentiles of a child’s height by sex and age, consistent with the simplified table by Kaelber et al.16
Age, y	Boys						Girls
	SBP, mmHg			DBP, mmHg			SBP, mmHg			DBP, mmHg
	P5(H)	P50(H)	P95(H)	P5(H)	P50(H)	P95(H)	P5(H)	P50(H)	P95(H)	P5(H)	P50(H)	P95(H)
3	104	109	113	63	65	67	104	107	110	65	67	69
4	106	111	115	66	69	71	105	108	112	68	70	72
5	108	112	116	69	72	74	107	110	113	70	72	74
6	109	114	117	72	74	76	108	111	115	72	74	76
7	110	115	119	74	76	78	110	113	116	73	75	77
8	111	116	120	75	78	80	112	115	118	75	76	78
9	113	118	121	76	79	81	114	117	120	76	77	79
10	115	119	123	77	80	82	116	119	122	77	78	80
11	117	121	125	78	80	82	118	121	124	78	79	81
12	119	123	127	78	81	83	119	123	126	79	80	82
13	121	126	130	79	81	83	121	124	128	80	81	83
14	124	128	132	80	82	84	123	126	129	81	82	84
15	126	131	135	81	83	85	124	127	131	82	83	85
16	129	134	137	82	84	87	125	128	132	82	84	86
17	131	136	140	84	87	89	125	129	132	82	84	86

B. Simplified table displaying the 95th percentile values of blood pressure (mmHg) at the 5th, 50th and 95th percentiles of a child’s height by age group, based on the Fourth Report, consistent with the simplified table by Mitchell et al.17
Age, y	SBP, mmHg			DBP, mmHg
	P5(H)	P50(H)	P95(H)	P5(H)	P50(H)	P95(H)
3–5	104	107	110	63	65	67
6–8	108	111	115	72	74	76
9–11	113	117	120	76	77	79
12–14	119	123	126	78	80	82
15–17
Boys	126	131	135	81	83	85
Girls	124	127	131	82	83	85

C. Formulas to estimate the 95th percentile blood pressure values (mmHg) at the 5th, 50th and 95th percentiles of height based on the Fourth Report, consistent with formulas developed by Somu et al.14 and Badeli et al.15
	Age, y	P5(H)	P50(H)	P95(H)
SBP, mmHg	3–17	96 + 2*age	100 + 2*age	103+2*age
DBP, mmHg	3–5	58 + 2*age	60 + 2*age	63+2*age
	6–17	66 + age	68 + age	70 + age

D. Simplified table displaying the blood pressure to height ratio (BPHR) corresponding to the 95th percentile blood pressure values, based on the Fourth Report (Xi el al.20 and Lu et al.19)
Age, y	Systolic BPHR	Diastolic BPHR
6–11	0.84	0.55
12–17	0.78	0.50

E. Simplified table displaying the 95th percentile blood pressure values according to a child’s absolute height, based on the Fourth Report (Chiolero et al.18)
Height categories (cm)	Height range (cm)	SBP, mmHg	DBP, mmHg
80	<85	104	61
90	85–94	107	65
100	95–104	110	68
110	105–114	112	72
120	115–124	114	76
130	125–134	117	78
140	135–144	120	80
150	145–154	123	81
160	155–164	128	83
170	165–174	131	85
180	≥175	136	87

P₅(H), P₅₀(H), P₉₅(H): 5^th, 50^th and 95^th percentiles of a child’s height