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Revista Salud Uninorte
Print version ISSN 0120-5552On-line version ISSN 2011-7531
Abstract
CESANI, MARÍA FLORENCIA et al. High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents from Urban Peripheral Areas of La Plata, Argentina. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2020, vol.36, n.1, pp.62-80. Epub May 19, 2021. ISSN 0120-5552. https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.36.1.616.85.
Objective:
The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of high blood pressure in schoolchildren aged 4-14 years from urban peripheral areas of the city of La Plata, and analyze variations in high blood pressure prevalence by sex, age, excess weight and family socioeconomic status.
Materials and methods:
Systolic and diastolic blood pressure, body weight and height were measured in 3,312 schoolchildren of both sexes. The prevalence of high blood pressure (HBP), overweight and obesity was calculated. Socioeconomic information was obtained through a semi-structured survey and processed by categorical principal-component analysis. The prevalence of HBP was compared with sex, age and nutritional status (chi square test) and family socioeconomic status (generalized linear model) (p< 0,05).
Results:
The results showed that the prevalence of HBP was 20.5% and that it varied by age, nutritional status and family socioeconomic status. Sexual differences were observed only in HBP obese schoolchildren.
Conclusions:
Children and adolescents living in urban peripheral areas of the city of La Plata, Argentina, presented higher HBP prevalence. While HBP prevalence was higher among overweight/obese children, those aged >8 years and those of more favorable family socioeconomic status, sex did not affect HBP development. However, when HBP was analyzed associated with nutritional status, obese boys were more likely to have HBP than girls.
Keywords : (Source: Health Sciences Descriptors DeCS 2017.): blood pressure; students; overweight; obesity.