Prevalence of Obesity and Hypertension among apparently healthy school children aged 5-15 years of affluent societies of Tirupati
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Developing countries are undergoing nutritional transition due to increased economic development and market globalization leading to rapid changes in lifestyle and dietary habits. Malnutrition, in every form, presents significant threat to human health. Developing countries like India are facing the peculiar situation of having to deal with both ends of the spectrum (undernutrition and overnutrition) of nutritional disorders. The prevalence of hypertension in children is reported to be 1-3%. Elevated blood pressure in children and adolescents may be an early expression of essential hypertension in adulthood. The prevalence of obesity and hypertension in the present study was 3.89% and1.36% respectively. Girls were found to be more obese than boys and the difference is statistically significant. Out of 74 obese children, nearly three fourth of them 72.9 %( 54) were in the age group of 11-15years and remaining 27.1% (20) were belonged to 5- 10 years age group.
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Manohar B. , Sasi Kumar B. , Shankar Reddy Dudala
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