High blood pressure in childhood: Anthropometric risk factors related to its presence
Keywords:
hypertension, pediatrics, risk factorsAbstract
Introduction: Due to the fact that cardiovascular diseases are increasingly frequent and constitute the first cause of death in developed countries, it is important to define the factors involved in its development. Objective: To identify the presence of hypertension in a pediatric population and the anthropometric risk factors that predicts acquired cardiovascular disease in hypertensive children, and to demonstrate the possible relationship between the presence of risk factors and the onset of hypertension in children. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out to analyze how the predictive risk factors of cardiovascular disease influence the pediatric population. Children from 8 to 11 years of age from two primary schools in Santa Clara were selected for the study. Results: It is important to indicate a specific estimate of the prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension in the ages analyzed, the non-white color of the skin was predominant, it was determined that weight, height and body mass index, alone, are not good predictors for blood pressure. However, among the anthropometric markers studied, the waist circumference variable shows a continuously increasing character of its means (among the variables it turns out to be the best predictor). Conclusions: The high incidence of prehypertensive and hypertensive infants was determined, some of them presented very subtle symptoms that can even be attributed to other diseases, and the circumference of the waist was the most important anthropometric marker associated with hypertensive children.Downloads
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