Casual blood pressure in school children in Kaduna, Nigeria.
Casual blood pressure was measured in 600 healthy school children in Kaduna, Nigeria. Of these children, 21 (3.5%) had blood pressure more than two standard deviations above the mean for age. There was no significant difference in the pattern of mean blood pressure in both sexes.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D009549:Nigeria; D012737:Sex Factors