This study investigates the factors affecting the timing of antenatal care (ANC) seeking among Bangladeshi women using the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data. Overall, 52% of the most recently pregnant women sought skilled ANC. The most pronounced reason for not receiving the services was that it was "not needed." Of the women who sought ANC, 57% entered for ANC at the fourth month or later. The multivariate regression analysis revealed that maternal age, women's education, residence, wealth index, pregnancy intention status, child's birth order, and wanting more children were the important determinants of ANC services utilization. Wanting more children and contraception use were no longer independent contributors to late ANC entry. These barriers should also be addressed as part of health interventions through information education and communication programs to early entry to ANC. The need to reduce financial barriers to care is a major implication of this study.

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15.37 (3.31 -71.37).Key words: Hypertension, school going children. children are exempted. Moreover, BP measurement in infants and children is difficult and time consuming. So, in pediatric practice BP is not measured routinely and is assumed to be normal. Contrary to this belief it is estimated that 1-3% children are hypertensive 1 .Diagnosis of hypertension in adult is made when BP exceeds a defined level i.e. systolic BP (SBP) 140 mmHg and diastolic BP (DBP) 90 mmHg 2 . Absence of such single cut off value in children makes diagnosis of hypertension more difficult, and the use of such age -sex-independent absolute value is inappropriate. In children, hypertension is diagnosed when resting BP consistently exceeds 95 th centile in relation to age and sex 3 . In infancy and early childhood, hypertension is mainly secondary to some diseased BANGLADESH J CHILD HEALTH 2005; VOL 29 (3) : 82-87

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