Titre : | Blood pressure measurement in epidemiological investigations in teenagers. (2001) |
Auteurs : | Yves Coppieters ; Luc BERGHMANS ; Isabelle Godin ; Alain Levêque ; Florence PARENT ; Observatoire de la Santé du Hainaut. Havré. BEL ; School of Public Health. Free University of Brussels. Brussels. BEL |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | European journal of epidemiology (vol. 17, n° 10, 2001) |
Pagination : | 901-906 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Pression artérielle ; Technique mesure ; Adolescent ; Homme ; Epidémiologie ; Appareil cardiovasculaire ; Vaisseau |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS eR0xEU83. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background : The use of sphygmomanometers may lead to problems in investigations on health of young people. The purpose of this paper is to present the validation of the blood pressure (BP) collected during the survey'Youth Heart Health'in Hainaut by using second sample of young people in Hainaut for which BP was measured by a manual taking of tension and by an electronic device. Methods : Validation was done with a control sample of 343 young with five successive BP measures : twice with the mercury sphygmomanometer and three with DXL. We compared the manual and the electronic measures in order to study the correlation between the two methods. The control sample was used in order to compare the BP measurements with the results of the survey on the health of young people in Hainaut. Results : The differences between manual systolic BP and Dinamap measures are significant (differences in averages 3.6 mmHg ; d.s. 7.8 ; 95% CI : 2.8-4.4 mmHg ; p |