Abstract
Introduction: Hypertension is a major public health problem found to have origin very early in life but remains asymptomatic warranting screening of all children. Objective: To study the prevalence of Pre hypertension and Hypertension among traditional Jenukuruba tribal children in Mysore district. Methods: Community based cross sectional study done over a period of 2 years from. About 3864 children between the age group of 2-15 years of Jenukuruba tribal community were enrolled in the study. Anthropometric measurements were recorded. Weight for age, Height for age and BMI were calculated. Blood pressure recording was done by research assistants and classified using American Heart Association fourth task force recommendations. Results: The point prevalence of systolic prehypertension and hypertension among tribal children between 2-15 years was 6.9% and 2.3% respectively and the point prevalence of diastolic prehypertension and hypertension was 9.6% and 4.1% respectively. Conclusion: The prevalence of pre hypertension and hypertension in tribal children is similar and comparable to urban population.
Highlights
Hypertension is a major public health problem found to have origin very early in life but remains asymptomatic warranting screening of all children
Among 3864 tribal children enrolled under project, 1960 were males and 1904 were females with almost equal sex distribution.1175 (27.9%) of children were having BMI < 5th centile, 127 (3.3%) children were overweight with BMI between 85th and 95th centile and 9 (0.2%) children were obese with BMI >95TH centile
Among 3864 tribal children enrolled under project, 1960 were males and 1904 were females with equal sex distribution
Summary
Hypertension is a major public health problem found to have origin very early in life but remains asymptomatic warranting screening of all children. Objective: To study the prevalence of Pre hypertension and Hypertension among traditional Jenukuruba tribal children in Mysore district. About 3864 children between the age group of 2-15 years of Jenukuruba tribal community were enrolled in the study. Conclusion: The prevalence of pre hypertension and hypertension in tribal children is similar and comparable to urban population. The fact that essential hypertension has its origin in childhood has resulted in increased emphasis on screening asymptomatic children [5,6,7]. In Mysore district among 26, 41,027 tribal populations, Jenukuruba are the major tribal group [8]. In our study we have made an attempt to study the prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension among Jenukuruba tribal children
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