Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2017

PREVALENCE OF OBESITY AND HYPERTENSION IN SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS

Sandhya Banik, Kalpana Sharma

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 A cross sectional study on 165 healthy consented adolescent girls was conducted to find the correlation of obesity with blood pressure. The cut off for blood pressure were taken according to height percentile, age and sex specified in the fourth report on the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of high blood pressure in children and adolescents (2004) and body mass index as prescribed by WHO expert consultation (2004). Mean systolic blood pressure of subjects was 124.29 and diastolic blood pressure was 80.36. Statically significant positive correlation of SBP with weight (0.264), body mass index (0.286) and DBP (0.506) at (p<0.01) and DBP with weight (0.359), body mass index (0.389) and SBP (0.506) at (p<0.01) was seen. 18% girls had isolated SBP hypertension and 21% had isolated DBP hypertension.  Overall prevalence of malnutrition was 21.81%, Overweight and obese girls were 8.48% and 7.87% respectively. It was concluded on the basis of the results that stage screening of blood pressure is recommended to take necessary steps to eradicate or fight with the evil effects of hypertension especially in girls.

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Sandhya Banik, Kalpana Sharma, PREVALENCE OF OBESITY AND HYPERTENSION IN SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾6 | June‾2017

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