Prevalence Of Hypertension and Its Relationship with Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents and Young Adults

• Main Authors: Srinivas S (Author), Srinivas Pallerla (Author), Srinivas Madoori (Author), Ramdas J (Author), Sreenivas Kotla (Author), Sandhya Rao Jalagam (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Medsci Publications, 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The rate of obesity is rapidly rising, and impacting quality of life, psychosocial situation, and health of the affected individual. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of elevated Body Mass Index (B.M.I.) in occurrence of prehyperten- sion and hypertension and their rela...