scholarly journals Biophysical Profile of Blood Pressure in Urban School Children of South India

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 251-251
Author(s):  
P Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
School Children ◽  
South India ◽  
Urban School ◽  
Biophysical Profile

scholarly journals Biophysical profile of blood pressure in urban school children

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
Dr. K. Pavan Kumar ◽  
◽  
Dr. S. Srikrishna ◽  
Dr. P.S. Murthy ◽  
Dr. Padmanabha Reddy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
School Children ◽  
Urban School ◽  
Biophysical Profile

scholarly journals High dietary micronutrient inadequacy in peri‐urban school children from a district in South India: Potential for staple food fortification and nutrient supplementation

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Radhika S. Madhari ◽  
Swetha Boddula ◽  
Palika Ravindranadh ◽  
Yvette Wilda Jyrwa ◽  
Naveen Kumar Boiroju ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
South India ◽  
Urban School ◽  
Food Fortification ◽  
Staple Food ◽  
Nutrient Supplementation

scholarly journals A study of blood pressure in rural and urban school children

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1261
Author(s):  
R. V. Baradol ◽  
Purushotham D. R.
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Blood Pressure ◽  
School Children ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Systolic Hypertension ◽  
Blood Pressure Measurement ◽  
Urban School ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Rural And Urban

Background: Hypertension is one of the most common diseases worldwide. Early diagnosis of Hypertension is an important strategy in its control. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of hypertension and risk factors among school going children and to find its relationship with regard to age, sex, height, weight and BMI criteria and comparing the values with available standards.Methods: It is a prospective cross-sectional study done in the age group of 10 to 16 years. Children were selected from urban and rural areas in and around Mysore city. Blood pressure measurements were taken by mercury Sphygmomanometer as per recommendation of American Heart Association. Three readings of blood pressure were recorded for each subject and were correlated with age, gender and anthropometry. All the statistical operations were done through SPSS.Results: The present study was conducted amongst children in the age group of 10-16 years in rural and urban schools. A total of 2000 children were included in the study. BP measurements of 1000 subjects in three urban school children and 1000 school children in one rural school children in Mysuru district were done. In rural school children prevalence of systolic hypertension was 2.8% in males and 0.9% in females. In urban school children prevalence of systolic hypertension was 2.1% in males and 1.2% in females.Conclusions: Blood pressure measurement in children is pivotal in clinical examination. Periodic measurement of blood pressure would identify hypertension at an early age. Further studies are needed to know the exact prevalence of hypertension and long term follow up studies are required to know the effect and risk factors associated in children with sustained hypertension.

scholarly journals Nutritional and blood pressure screening in school children in rural South India: a cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhanya Roy ◽  
Sundar Singh ◽  
Lenikumar Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
School Children ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
South India ◽  
Linear Trend ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
High Bmi

Background: Screening for diseases is not very popular in Indian populace in general, and receive little attention from heath care policy makers, administrators or even health care providers, who concentrate on curative services. Health and nutritional screening of school children and adolescents, remains virtually a neglected field. So we conceived this study to look at the feasibility of large scale health screening of adolescents at school by a simple and inexpensive way by looking into the nutritional status (survey of anthropometry) and blood pressure readings among adolescents.Methods: Students from 5 rural school in South India from age group of 10 to 18 years (fifth to twelfth standard) were assessed for their height, weight, BMI and blood pressure. Data was entered in WHO EpidataTM (version 3.0) and transferred to SPSS 12.0 version for analytical studies.Results: In current study of 2201 students, wasting (35.5%), stunting (24.5%), high BMI (7.6%) were found. Prevalence of wasting is 1.63 times higher in males (p<0.001). There is significant relationship with high BMI and severe stunting (p<0.001, OR 2.54; 1.58%, 4.1%; 95% CI). Prevalence of pre-hypertension is 14.1% and hypertension is 9.5%. There is a linear trend in the prevalence of hypertension and BMI (p<0.001). As the BMI increases, blood pressure also increases.Conclusions: Even with all advances in health care, undernutrition is highly prevalent. Obesity is on a rise in rural population and high proportions of overweight children are stunted also. High BMI is a risk factor for hypertension.

scholarly journals A study of adolescent obesity and hypertension in urban school in Mumbai

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita D. Patil ◽  
Sonali Shejul ◽  
Prashant Bhandarkar ◽  
Ashok Kattimani ◽  
Ansari Mudassir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
School Children ◽  
Blood Pressure Measurement ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
Indian Academy ◽  
Urban School ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Hypertensive Disorder ◽  
Low Middle Income Countries ◽  
Significant Difference

Background: Obesity and high blood pressure is increasingly prevalent, not only in adults but also in children. Initially thought to be disease of high income countries (HIC), this disease is now increasing across low middle income countries (LMIC). This study aims to estimate the prevalence of obesity and hypertension among urban school children in Mumbai.Methods: Guidelines of Indian Academy of Pediatrics were used to calculate BMI Z Score and identify the overweight and obese adolescents. Children from the age group of 9 to 15 years were selected from schools in Mumbai. Standard guidelines of blood pressure measurement using Sex height specific blood pressure percentile charts were used. Normotensive, pre-hypertensive and hypertensive adolescents were recognized. Associations among both groups were checked using chi-square test of significance and gender wise differences were studied.Results: Among 1486 adolescents studied prevalence of overweight and obesity was found to be 20.18% and 16.01% respectively. While the prevalence of pre-hypertension and hypertension was found to be 7.5% and 5.4% respectively. Gender wise significant difference was found; boys had blood pressure slightly higher than that of girls.Conclusions: Study documents scenario of increasing obesity and hypertension among urban school children of India. Strong association exists between both obese/ overweight and hypertensive disorder.

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