An Epidemiological Study of Blood Pressure and Its Relation with Anthropometric Measurements among Schoolboys of Burdwan Municipal Area, West Bengal.

I NTRODUCTION Hypertension is one of the most common public health problems globally among adults and often begins in the childhood and adolescent period.[ 1 ] India is in the process of rapid economic development, and modernization with changing lifestyle factors has an increasing trend of hypertension, especially among urban population.[ 2 ] Several studies in India have reported the prevalence of hypertension to be ranging between 0.46% and 15% among children and adolescents.[ 3 , 4 , 5 ] Many environmental and genetic factors play a great role in the causation of high blood pre

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