Saleh, E.A. 2000 A multistage, stratified random sample of 1312 students aged 6 10 years was selected from the five regions in Kuwait. Parents were interviewed and weight, height and urine analysis of the children were taken. Blood pressure was measured on at least three separate occasions. The overall prevalence of hypertension average systolic and or diastolic blood pressure 95th percentile for age and sex was 5.1 . In multivariate logistic regression analysis, certain groups of Kuwaiti schoolchildren were much more likely to develop hypertension. They ...