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

• Main Authors: Lu Xi (Author), Shi Peng (Author), Luo Chun-Yan (Author), Zhou Yue-Fang (Author), Yu Hui-Ting (Author), Guo Chang-Yi (Author), Wu Fan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: 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...