Childhood hypertension affects 6.48% of school-going children in Surat city and is associated with obesity and family history of cardiometabolic disease.
Prevalence of hypertension was 6.48% in the study subjects. We identified obesity, family history of diabetes mellitus, ischemic heart disease was found to be significant association for childhood hypertension.
Charan et al. (2011) studied this question.