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Table 3 The cumulative incidence of hypertension in studied children at the end of follow-up

From: Relationship of BMI to the incidence of hypertension: a 4 years’ cohort study among children in Guangzhou, 2007–2011

 

Overall

Boys

Girls

 

BMI groups

n

%

n

%

n

%

P Value*

Thinness

256

22.3

120

19.9

136

24.9

< 0.001

Normal

1578

29.4

710

27.1

868

31.6

0.13

Overweight

445

50.1

273

45.8

172

59.1

< 0.001

Obesity

494

70.0

350

69.4

144

70.8

0.22

Total

2773

38.5

1453

38.0

1320

39.0

0.38

  1. P-values* from Chi-square tests for categorical variables between boys and girls