You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 16, Issue 2
  • Prevalence of hypertension is about 1–2% in African American girls and 0.5% in Caucasian girls aged 9 or 10 years, and prevalence increased with obesity

Article info

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Prevalence
Cohort study
Prevalence of hypertension is about 1–2% in African American girls and 0.5% in Caucasian girls aged 9 or 10 years, and prevalence increased with obesity

Authors

  1. Correspondence to Dimitrios Papandreou
    Second Department of Pediatrics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine AHEPA General Hospital, Greece; papandreoudimitrios{at}yahoo.gr
View Full Text

Citation

Papandreou D
Prevalence of hypertension is about 1–2% in African American girls and 0.5% in Caucasian girls aged 9 or 10 years, and prevalence increased with obesity
BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 2011;16:63-64.

Publication history

  • First published January 12, 2011.
Online issue publication 
October 25, 2017

Request permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Copyright information

Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions