Normal blood pressure range for 14-year-olds

Not only middle-aged and elderly people should pay attention to blood pressure, but young people and children should also pay attention to the blood pressure in their bodies. Because young people and children are prone to low blood pressure, which can cause a lot of harm to a person's body. The child’s blood pressure condition is also particularly important, because if the child’s blood pressure is too low, it may affect his growth and development. So what is the normal range of blood pressure for a 14-year-old?

In children, because blood vessels are small, the blood pressure value corresponding to the disappearance of sounds is often 0. Therefore, when measuring children's blood pressure, the three values ​​of systolic pressure, diastolic pressure inflection point and diastolic pressure silence point should be recorded. The recording method is systolic pressure/diastolic pressure inflection point/diastolic pressure silence point.

Normal systolic blood pressure = age × 2 + 80, and diastolic blood pressure is equivalent to 2/3 to 3/5 of systolic blood pressure.

The role of blood pressure measurement in children

Hypertension is more common in adults, but children and even newborns can also have high blood pressure. Hypertension is divided into two categories: primary and secondary. Secondary hypertension refers to hypertension caused by certain specific diseases, while primary hypertension refers to hypertension with no primary disease (cause) to be found. Most of the hypertension in children under 10 years old is secondary, and the younger the child is, the more so. If children have the following symptoms, parents should have their children's blood pressure measured regularly to be alert to the risk of hypertension.

1. No increase in height

Failure to increase in height may be a chronic disease caused by high blood pressure. The most common is congenital or acquired kidney disease. There may often be no obvious symptoms of kidney disease for quite a long time. Hypertension and corresponding changes in the kidneys are only discovered when the kidneys are damaged to a certain extent.

2. Chronic poisoning

Lead poisoning, vitamin D poisoning and chronic mercury poisoning can easily cause hypertension.

3. Obesity

Data show that the blood pressure of obese children is at the upper limit of the normal blood pressure range for children of the same age, and the degree of increase increases with the severity of obesity and age.

4. Abnormal sexual development

People with abnormal sexual development, especially girls who have not developed breasts and have not reached menarche after the age of 14, are found to have significantly elevated blood pressure during physical examinations.

However, parents should pay attention to the fact that they must not only understand the normal blood pressure range for children to know whether their children's blood pressure is normal, but they can also judge whether their children's blood pressure is high based on their physical health conditions, such as obesity, abnormal sexual development, or stunted growth, etc., which can be seen from some external manifestations.