Assessment of Blood Pressure in School Going Overweight Adolescents

Abstract

Background: According to the various studies done previously, hypertension may starts since adolescence. Therefore early detection is always good to check its progression. Methods: A case-control observational study based on school-going adolescents of both sexes between the age group of 10 to 16 years was done among 30 control and 30 overweight children. Their blood pressure, pulse pressure and anthropometric measurement were done according to the standard protocols. Unpaired student t-test was applied to compare the various parameters.Results: We were found that the significant difference between antropometric and blood parameters values of normal and control subjects with p-value 0.001. Conclusion: Outcome of our study suggested that most of the overweight students were hypertensive's and might be at a risk of getting obsessed and will prone to future risk of cardiac disorders.