Table 3.

Prevalence of hypertension in the study schools.

School name	Hypertensive			Nonhypertensive			Hypertension prevalence in %
	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
Ghion ss∗	11	4	15	13	14	27	35.7
Tana Haik ss	7	3	10	17	7	24	29.4
Fasilo ss	8	2	10	10	9	19	34.5
Bahir Dar preps∗	10	2	12	15	5	20	37.5
Ethio-Japanese ss	2	0	2	9	3	12	14.3
Shum abo ss	2	1	3	6	3	9	25
Diaspora ss	3	3	6	6	2	8	42.9
Zegie ss	0	1	1	11	3	14	6.7
Meshenti ss	3	2	5	8	5	13	27.8
Tis Abay ss	1	0	1	7	4	11	8.33
Total	47	18	65	102	55	157	29.28

Note. ss = secondary school; preps = preparatory school.