[An epidemiological study of arterial pressure in a schoolchild population].
OBJECTIVE
To know the prevalence of high blood pressure in childhood.


METHODS
Epidemiological transversal study. SITE. School population, level community.


METHODS
A population of 566 children of 6, 10 and 13 years old of Madrid public schools.


RESULTS
The blood pressure measure was registered two times according to the WHO's guidelines. We considered the first sound as systolic blood pressure and the fifth auscultatory phase as diastolic blood pressure. Considering as hypertensive those subjects whose blood pressure are higher than percentile 95 for their age and sex, the total prevalence of systolic hypertension was 5.8% and the total prevalence of diastolic hypertension was 1.4% in both genders. We realized that systolic hypertension prevalence is higher in males for all ages and its is also higher than the results offered by similar studies. It doesn't happen the same thing in the diastolic hypertension prevalence which we found that the measurements registered in males are higher than females but in contrast with other studies we found similar prevalence.


CONCLUSIONS
We need to identify early the presence of higher blood pressure with the purpose of to prevent in time.
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Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Gil
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Rey
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D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
Estudio epidemiológico de la tensión arterial en una población escolar.