High blood pressure in children and its correlation with three definitions of obesity in childhood.

The only correlation identified as to sex was the presence of higher levels of diastolic blood pressure in males (p = 0.02) There was a strong correlation between the presence of overweight and the occurrence of high blood pressure, as shown by highly significant direct linear regression (p < 0.001) between BMI Z and blood pressure Z, both systolic and diastolic blood pressure ( Figure 2 ).

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