Prevalence of high blood pressure in Brazilian adolescents and quality of the employed methodological procedures: systematic review

OBJECTIVE: To review the literature on studies that estimated the prevalence of high blood pressure (HBP) or systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) in Brazilian adolescents, considering the employed methodological procedures. METHODS: Bibliographical research of prevalence studies of HBP/SAH in adoles...

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Main Authors: Marina Gabriella Pereira de Andrada Magalhães, Luciano Machado Ferreira Tenório de Oliveira, Diego Giulliano Destro Christofaro, Raphael Mendes Ritti-Dias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva 2013-12-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-790X2013000400849&lng=en&tlng=en