Vitals is a simple app that allows users to easily determine age and gender specific z-scores and/or percentiles for height, body mass index, heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure.
Height and weight z-scores and percentiles are derived from open source data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Blood pressure z-scores and percentiles are derived from open source data from "The Fourth Report on the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents" published by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, NIH Publication No. 05-5267
Heart rate and respiratory rate percentiles are derived from data published in - Normal ranges of heart rate and respiratory rate in children from birth to 18 years of age: a systematic review of observational studies: Susannah Fleming, DPhil, Dr Matthew Thompson, DPhilcorrespondenceemail, Richard Stevens, PhD, Carl Heneghan, DPhil, Annette Plüddemann, PhD, Ian Maconochie, PhD, Lionel Tarassenko, DPhil, David Mant, FMedSci: The Lancet 2011
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