Prevalence of hypertension in primary schoolchildren in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Paediatrics and International Child Health

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 208-212

  Okoh, Boma Alali ^a   Alikor, Edward Achi ^a   Akani, Nwaduito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Body Mass Index; Hypertension; Pre hypertension; School children

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGERIA; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREHYPERTENSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; UNDERWEIGHT;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84874856675     PISSN: 20469047     EISSN: 20469055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2046905512Y.0000000039     Document Type: Article

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