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Volume 7 Issue 6 (June, 2019)

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Correlation of Blood Pressure and Anthropometric Measurements in School Children
Bhavna Gupta, Reecha Gupta, Mohit Gupta3 Akash Dua

Background: The prevalence of hypertension in children and adolescents seems to be increasing. The present study was undertaken to evaluate correlation of blood pressure and anthropometric measurement in school children. Materials & Methods: The present study was conducted in the department of Community Medicine. It comprised of 580 school children age ranged 12-16 years of both genders. In all children, height (cm), weight (kg), systolic and diastolic blood pressure was recorded. Results: Maximum boys were in age 12 years and 16 years and girls in age 14 years, followed by 70 boys in 12 years, 80 in 15 years and 60 in 14 years. 48 girls in 15 years, 42 in 13 years, 38 in 12 years and 17 in 16 years. Boys had 22% and girls had 20% of prevalence of hypertension. The mean height in males was 155.2 cm and in girls was 146.2 cm, weight was 37.4 kg in boys and 32.1 kg in girls, SBP was 132.4 mm Hg in boys and 124.6 mm Hg in girls. DBP was 86.2 mm Hg in boys and 74.6 mm Hg in girls. Conclusion: Authors found a positive correlation of weight of subjects and systolic and diastolic blood pressure in subjects.
Key words: children, diastolic blood pressure, hypertension

Received: 14 March, 2019                                         Revised:  20 May 2019                             Accepted: 22 May 2019

Corresponding author: Dr. Bhavna Gupta, Senior lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Swami Devi Dayal Hospital and Dental College, Barwala, Haryana, India.

This article may be cited as: Gupta B, Gupta R, Gupta M, Dua A. Correlation of Blood Pressure and Anthropometric Measurements in School Children. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2019;7(6): 90-92.

 
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