Open AccessPrevalence of hypertension and prehypertension in schoolchildren from Central India
Author(s) -
Ashish Patel,
Anil Bharani,
Meenakshi Sharma,
Anuradha Bhagwat,
Neepa Ganguli,
Dharampal Singh Chouhan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annals of pediatric cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-2069
pISSN - 0974-5149
DOI - 10.4103/apc.apc_13_18
Subject(s) - prehypertension , medicine , percentile , blood pressure , anthropometry , pediatrics , epidemiology , cross sectional study , demography , statistics , mathematics , pathology , sociology
Epidemiological transition with increasing burden of cardiovascular risk factors is evident not only in adults but also in children. The data on the prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension in children show large regional differences in India and such data are not available from Central India. We, therefore, conducted a large cross-sectional study in Indore to determine the distribution of blood pressure (BP) and the prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension among schoolchildren.