bpdata {pedbp}R Documentation

Data Sets Informing Blood Pressure Percentile Estimates

Description

A collection of data sets from multiple sources used to inform blood pressure percentiles for pediatrics patients by sex, age, and height (if known).

Usage

lo2013

gemelli1990

nhlbi_bp_norms

bp_parameters

Format

An object of class data.frame with 30 rows and 6 columns.

An object of class data.frame with 8 rows and 6 columns.

An object of class data.frame with 952 rows and 6 columns.

An object of class data.frame with 276 rows and 8 columns.

Details

Data sets are named to reflect the source.

For all the data sets provided units are uniform:

age:

Patient age; months

height:

length/height/stature; cm

weight:

kilograms

male:

integer value; 1 = male, 0 = female

sbp:

systolic blood pressure; mmHg

dbp:

diastolic blood pressure; mmHg

Columns with a name such as sbp is a point observations. Summary statistics are appended to the variable as needed, e.g., sbp_mean and sbp_sd for the reported mean and standard deviation of systolic blood pressure.

CDC ages represent whole month but reported at the half month. That is, age = 12.5 is short-hand for 12 <= age < 13. The exception is birth; age = 0 is birth and not a range.

bp_parameters has the estimated mean and standard deviations for estimating percentiles using a Gaussian distribution for a given sex, age (in months), and height (if known/applicable).

References

Expert Panel on Integrated Guidelines for Cardiovascular Health and Risk Reduction in Children and Adolescents. "Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents: summary report." Pediatrics 128.Supplement_5 (2011): S213-S256.

Gemelli, M., Manganaro, R., Mami, C., & De Luca, F. (1990). Longitudinal study of blood pressure during the 1st year of life. European journal of pediatrics, 149(5), 318-320.

Lo, Joan C., et.al. "Prehypertension and hypertension in community-based pediatric practice." Pediatrics 131.2 (2013): e415-e424.

See Also

vignette("bp-distributions", package = "pedbp")


[Package pedbp version 1.0.2 Index]