Blood pressure screening in school-aged children in Tehran

Iranian Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 229-233

  Mohkam, Masoumeh ^a   Karimi, Abdollah ^a   Eslami, Narges ^a   Khatami, Alireza ^a   Fallah, Fatemeh ^a   Maham, Saiid ^a   Jadali, Farzaneh ^a   Gorji, Fatemeh Abdollah ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Hypertension; Overweight; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IRAN; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79959853973     PISSN: 17358582     EISSN: 17358604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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