title: Childhood hypertension and academic standing in the Philippines.
abstract: A blood pressure study on 1,078 school children, grades one through six, conducted in Mindanao, Philippines, showed an inverse association between the prevalence of systolic hypertension and the level of academic achievement, significant at p less than 0.05 in grades 4--6, and p = 0.06 in grades 1--3.
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004522:Educational Status; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010679:Philippines