title: Evaluation of sustained blood pressure elevation in children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To document the prevalence and etiology of sustained blood pressure elevation in children.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It is a school-based prospective cross-sectional study involving healthy school children in age group of 5-15 years (both sexes). Children with any acute or chronic illnesses and the intersexes were excluded from the study group. Total number of hypertensive children were 37. Of these 37 cases, 23 hypertensive cases were boys and 14 were girls. All these hypertensive children maintained their blood pressure above +2SD for the corresponding age and sex. Male and female ratio of hypertensive cases was 62:38. All were primary hypertensives as per working definition. Majority belonged to Class II socio-economic status.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Hypertension in children is very rare with a prevalence of 0.38% and majority had primary hypertension.
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Dept of Paediatric Medicine, Medical College, Kolkata, India. Electronic address: arunkrde@rediffmail.com.
authors.forename: Arun
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar De
authors.forename: Soura
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mookerjee
authors.forename: Santanu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guha
authors.forename: Archan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sil
authors.forename: Kallol
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Das
authors.forename: Debdutta
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chakravorty
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D000886:Anthropometry; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D015995:Prevalence; D011446:Prospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012572:School Health Services; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Blood pressure; Cuff size; Diastolic blood pressure (DBP); Mean diastolic pressure (MDP); Mean systolic pressure (MSP)