Impact of televisition viewing leads to hypertension among school children in metrocity

To analyze the relation between hypertension and watching television. Correlation between Diastolic and Systolic blood pressure and establish norms of blood pressure in children aided and unaided schools sportsmen and non sportsmen of (5th to 7^th) standard.

We measured the Diastolic and Systolic blood pressure. Norms of 5^th to 7^th standard aided and unaided sportsmen and non sportsmen were established. Random study settings of 1600 children of Bangalore Metro city. Persistently hypertensive children were investigated influencing factors like family history of hypertension was taken in to account.

The prevalence of Diastolic and Systolic blood pressure in school children 5^th to 7^th standard in our study counters the results obtained from the other studies. Present data was analyzed statistically and we had tried to correlate it with time spent on TV.

Aided schools sportsmen and non sportsmen 800 samples and unaided schools sportsmen and non sportsmen 800 samples were taken into account for the study and this study was conducted among the boys. The above statistics with the help of t-ratio watching television 2.571, diastolic blood pressure 8.343, and systolic blood pressure 17.374 among 1600.

We observed an association between hypertension among the sportsmen and non sportsmen in the aided and unaided schools and the time spent in front of TV is the factor.