Prevalence of high blood pressure in Brazilian adolescents and quality of the employed methodological procedures: systematic review

• Main Authors: Marina Gabriella Pereira de Andrada Magalhães (Author), Luciano Machado Ferreira Tenório de Oliveira (Author), Diego Giulliano Destro Christofaro (Author), Raphael Mendes Ritti-Dias (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, 2013-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To review the literature on studies that estimated the prevalence of high blood pressure (HBP) or systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) in Brazilian adolescents, considering the employed methodological procedures. METHODS: Bibliographical research of prevalence studies of HBP/SAH in adoles...