Prevalence of high blood pressure in children and adolescents from the city of Maceió, Brazil;Prevalência de pressão arterial elevada em escolares e adolescentes de Maceió

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-40

  Moura, Adriana Ávila ^a,d   Silva, Maria A M ^b   Ferraz, Maria R M T ^c   Rivera, Ivan R ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^b Departamento de Clinica Medica   (Brazil)

^c Department of Morphology   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Blood pressure; Children; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 1842760738     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/1131     Document Type: Article

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