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. 2010 Mar 9;10:13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2431-10-13

Table 1.

Age-wise prevalence of point-prehypertension and point-hypertension in the population

AGE (Yrs) SEMI-URBAN AREA URBAN AREA

BOYS GIRLS TOGETHER BOYS GIRLS TOGETHER

N PHT (%) HT (%) N PHT (%) HT (%) N PHT (%) HT (%) N PHT (%) HT (%) N PHT (%) HT (%) N PHT (%) HT (%)
13 65 16.9 1.5 41 12.2 2.4 106 15.1 1.9 3 0.0 0.0 16 6.3 0.0 19 5.3 0.0
14 86 17.4 8.1 46 26.1 4.3 132 20.5 6.8 10 10.0 40.0 33 18.2 6.1 43 16.3 14.0
15 58 20.7 6.9 36 19.4 5.6 94 20.2 6.4 36 13.9 13.9 48 27.1 18.8 84 21.4 16.7
16 30 30.0 3.3 28 32.1 7.1 58 31.0 5.2 35 34.3 17.1 58 22.4 22.4 93 26.9 20.4
17 27 40.7 3.7 23 21.7 4.3 50 32.0 4.0 30 36.7 6.7 33 18.2 27.3 63 27.0 17.5
18 24 37.5 0.0 19 36.8 0.0 43 37.2 0.0 40 40.0 22.5 18 33.3 22.2 58 37.9 22.4
Total 290 23.1 4.8 193 20.7 4.1 483 22.2 4.6 154 29.2 16.9 206 21.8 18.0 360 25.0 17.5

PHT and HT stand for point-prehypertension and point-hypertension respectively