%0 Journal Article
%T Prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension in schoolchildren from Central India
%A Anil Bharani
%A Anuradha Bhagwat
%A Ashish Patel
%A Dharampal Singh Chouhan
%A Meenakshi Sharma
%A Neepa Ganguli
%J Archive of "Annals of Pediatric Cardiology".
%D 2019
%R 10.4103/apc.APC_13_18
%X 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
%K Blood pressure
%K pediatric hypertension
%K school health checkup
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521652/