[Association between obesity in childhood and hypertension incidence: a prospective cohort study].

To explore the impact of obesity level and the level change in childhood on hypertension incidence.A perspective cohort study was conducted. As part of Beijing Child and Adolescent Metabolic Syndrome Study, 2189 aged 6 - 16 year non-hypertensive children was followed up in December, 2010. In this study, height, weight, waist circumference (WC) and blood pressure was measured at follow-up, and body mass index (BMI) and WC was respectively used to...