Blood Pressure Pediatric Chart

What blood pressure readings mean.

Blood pressure pediatric chart. Bp blood pressure the 90th percentile is 1 28 sd 95th percentile is 1 645 sd and the 99th percentile is 2 326 sd over the mean. The following pediatric blood pressure chart shows the normal ranges by age. As you can see from the blood pressure chart only one of the numbers has to be higher or lower than it should be to count as either high blood pressure or low blood pressure. The normal blood pressure in children ages 3 to 6 years old is 104 63 to 116 74 mm hg.

If a girl is at the 40th percentile for height she is taller than 40 of girls at that same age. Normal bp in children chart. This pedscases note provides a one page infographic on pediatric vital signs and covers the age based variation in normal ranges for vital signs throughout the pediatric population. Your blood pressure reading is.

A percentile shows the relative position of the child s measurement such as blood pressure or height among children of the same sex and age. You may have low blood pressure more on low blood pressure. Chris novak a pediatric resident at the university of alberta and dr. If the child is somewhat tall or big then you can expect a higher bp rate than that of smaller kids.

This will also vary depending on the size and gender of the child. Peter gill a staff pediatrician at the hospital for sick children in. Blood pressure readings are given as two numbers. It was created by dr.

More than 90 over 60 90 60 and less than 120 over 80 120 80. 90 over 60 90 60 or less. Boys chart girls chart the fourth report on the diagnosis evaluation and treatment of high blood pressure in children and adolescents a very comprehensive resource a pocket guide to blood pressure measurement in children useful classifications of bp by age and height useful in short or tall children and gives hypertension stages. For research purposes the standard deviations in appendix table b 1 allow one to compute bp z scores and percentiles for boys.