High blood pressure screening in children and adolescents from Amargosa, Bahia: usefulness of anthropometric indices of obesity.
Teresa Maria Bianchini de QuadrosAlex Pinheiro GordiaAlynne Christian Ribeiro AndakiEdmar Lacerda MendesJorge Augusto Pinto da Silva MotaLuciana Rodrigues SilvaPublished in: Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology (2019)
BMI, WC, and WHtR were associated with high BP, but the cut-off points tested showed low sensitivity. Determining specific cut-off points for each population can enable the use of anthropometric indices in high BP screening.