Studies of Blood Pressure and Prevalence of Hypertension in Schoolchildren in Jakarta

Abstract

Blood pressure measurement was done on 4983 school children of 6 - 18 years schoolchildren was at random so that the sample population represented the children in Jakarta. The incidence of hypertension in this study is about 3.11 %, of which most are found at the age of 15 years.

Keywords

• blood pressure; hypertension; incidence