High blood pressure in school children: Prevalence and risk factors

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Urrutia Rojas, Ximena ^a   Egbuchunam, Christie U ^a   Bae, Sejong ^a   Menchaca, John ^b   Bayona, Manuel ^a   Rivers, Patrick A ^c   Singh, Karan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Pediatrics   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOSIS NIGRICANS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENDER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33845296478     PISSN: 14712431     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-6-32     Document Type: Article

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