Open AccessElevated blood pressure and its associated risk factors among adolescents of a North Indian City - A cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Senthamizh Prasad,
Jamal Masood,
Anand Srivastava,
Prabhaker Mishra
Publication year - 2017
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/ijcm.ijcm_106_16
Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , cross sectional study , blood pressure , logistic regression , confidence interval , demography , waist , obesity , anthropometry , percentile , risk factor , environmental health , pathology , statistics , mathematics , sociology
Amidst the uncertainty in childhood blood pressure (BP) thresholds, besides the ambiguity in levels and duration of BP elevation causing organ damage, hypertension is present in substantial number of asymptomatic children and adolescents with only a few studies disclosing the setup. With projection of deaths due to noncommunicable diseases in 2030 rising to 52 million, it is necessary to know about the knowledge of present adolescents about BP and its modifiable risk factors.