After the COVID-19 outbreak, 1 in 5 elementary and high school students have high blood pressure

-Chronic disease indicators such as blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol and liver levels in elementary, middle and high school students were found to have worsened after the Corona 19 outbreak. In 2021, 1 student was found 5 out of 5 high school students and 1 out of 6 middle school students had high blood pressure.

According to student health test data presented by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education on the 13th by Democratic Party Korea representative Shin Hyun-young, the proportion of students with high blood pressure among elementary, middle and high school students in Seoul after The spread of the coronavirus was 14.3% in 2021, an increase of 0.4 percentage points compared to 2019.

As a result of blood tests conducted on students diagnosed with obesity, blood sugar levels, cholesterol levels, and liver level indices also increased and the chronic disease risk index worsened.

Among students diagnosed with obesity in 2021, 26.9 percent of high school students, 40.3 percent of middle school students, and 30.4 percent of high school students had high blood sugar. After Corona, the high blood sugar rate among all obese students was 32.6%, an increase of 11.4 percentage points from 2019.

Among all obese students, the percentage of students with increased liver levels also increased by 5.2 percentage points to 18.7%. Elevated liver levels are expected to be associated with fatty liver disease due to obesity.

“It has been confirmed that the increase in obesity in children and adolescents due to Corona is not just obesity, but ‘morbid obesity’ accompanied by chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia and fatty liver. The role of the state must be strengthened. from the point of view of permanent health care so that it does not lead to health problems ”.

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