Preliminary Blood Pressure Screening in a Representative Sample of Extremely Obese Kuwaiti Adolescents

Table 4

Spearman correlation coefficients between BMI and different measures of blood pressure in obese Kuwaiti adolescents.

Systolic BP			Diastolic BP			MAP			Pulse P
Both	M	F	Both	M	F	Both	M	F	Both	M	F
0.18*	0.18*	0.14	0.16*	0.10	0.22*	0.18**	0.14	0.21*	0.03	0.07	0.09

Correlation between BMI and blood pressure measure, *significance at 𝑃<0.05; **significance at 𝑃<0.01.
BP: blood pressure; MAP: mean arterial pressure.
M: male; F: female.