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What is the prevalence and what are the determinants of hypertension among primary-school children in Kuwait?
What is the prevalence and what are the determinants of hypertension among primary-school children in Kuwait?
Hypertension affects 5.1% of primary-school children in Kuwait and is strongly associated with parental consanguinity, family history, and obesity.
Supports school-based hypertension screening in Kuwait; leaves open causal roles of consanguinity and obesity in prospective studies.
A multistage, stratified random sample of 1312 students (aged 6-10 years) was selected from the five regions in Kuwait. Parents were interviewed and weight, height and urine analysis of the children were taken. Blood pressure was measured on at least three separate occasions. The overall prevalence of hypertension (average systolic and/or diastolic blood pressure > 95th percentile for age and sex) was 5.1%. In multivariate logistic regression analysis, certain groups of Kuwaiti schoolchildren were much more likely to develop hypertension. They included children whose parents were consanguineous, children with a family history of hypertension and obese children.
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