TY - JOUR AU - Lu, Xi AU - Shi, Peng AU - Luo, Chun-Yan AU - Zhou, Yue-Fang AU - Yu, Hui-Ting AU - Guo, Chang-Yi AU - Wu, Fan PY - 2013 DA - 2013/01/11 TI - Prevalence of hypertension in overweight and obese children from a large school-based population in Shanghai, China JO - BMC Public Health SP - 24 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - The ongoing rise in the prevalence of hypertension in children and adolescents is considered to be accompanied with the epidemic of childhood overweight and obesity. In this study, we established a large scale cross-sectional study in Shanghai, China, which presented a new evidence for the correlation of hypertension prevalence with overweight and obesity stages in Chinese children and adolescents. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-24 DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-13-24 ID - Lu2013 ER -