Prevalence of hypertension in the paediatric population in Coastal South India

Australasian Medical Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 695-698

  Kamath G , Veena ^a   Parthage, Prasanna Mithra ^a   Pattanshetty, Sanjay ^a   Kamath, Asha ^b   Balakrishnan, Anuja ^a   Mishra, Tinni ^a   Sinha, Nisha ^a   A, Lena ^b  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b MANGALORE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Blood pressure; Children; Hypertension; WHO

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CHILD; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; UNDERWEIGHT;

EID: 78349263786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18361935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4066/AMJ.2010.372     Document Type: Article

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