Emergency Management of Hypertension in Children

Table 3

Age-specific reference values of the LVMI in boys and girls Adapted from [56].

Age	Sex	LVMI (50th percentile)	LVMI (95th percentile)
>9 years	Boys	32.0 g/m^2.7	45.0 g/m^2.7
	Girls	27.0 g/m^2.7	40.0 g/m^2.7
<8 years	Boys	31.79 g/m^2.7	44.6 g/m^2.7
	Girls	29.71 g/m^2.7	43.5 g/m^2.7
<6 months	Boys	56.44 g/m^2.7	80.1 g/m^2.7
	Girls	55.38 g/m^2.7	85.6 g/m^2.7