Open AccessAssociation of Obesity with Hypertension Amongst School-Age Children Belonging to Lower income group and middle income group in national capital territory of Delhi
Author(s) -
Supreet Kaur,
H. P. S. Sachdev,
Dwivedi Sn,
R Lakshmi,
Umesh Kapil,
Neha Sareen
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/0970-0218.116355
Subject(s) - obesity , association (psychology) , middle income country , capital (architecture) , medicine , socioeconomics , geography , demography , political science , demographic economics , economics , psychology , sociology , endocrinology , archaeology , psychotherapist
Hypertension is one of the most common diseases world-wide and the prevalence in school-aged children appears to be increasing perhaps as a result of increased prevalence of obesity. Thus, the present study was planned to establish an association between body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) with hypertension amongst school children in the age group of 5-16 years belonging to lower income group (LIG) and middle income group (MIG) in National Capital Territory of Delhi.