Representative Study for the Evaluation of Age- and Gender-Specific Anthropometric Parameters and Blood Pressure in an Adolescent Hungarian Population

Abstract

The age- and gender-specific cutoff values thus formed may serve as reference values to assess the risk of developing nutrition-related noninfectious diseases in the future on the basis of the present percentile distribution of BMI. The present study also provides data on the prevalence of hypertension in the 15- to 18-year-old age group.