Prevalence of hypertension in overweight and obese children from a large school-based population in Shanghai, China

• Glavni autori: Lu Xi (Autor), Shi Peng (Autor), Luo Chun-Yan (Autor), Zhou Yue-Fang (Autor), Yu Hui-Ting (Autor), Guo Chang-Yi (Autor), Wu Fan (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: BMC, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The ongoing rise in the prevalence of hypertension in children and adolescents is considered to be accompanied with the epidemic of childhood overweight and obesity. In this study, we established a large scale cross-sectional study i...