title: [Arterial hypertension in students of the great São Paulo area].
abstract: In 1,000 students from Great São Paulo First Degree Schools, from 6 to 18 years old, we studied: age, sex, race, weight, height, left arm circumference, blood pressure, pulse and family history of hypertension. Of these 550 were female and 450 male, with predominance of caucasians in both sexes (83.7%). The conclusions of this study were: until 9 years old the blood pressure was similar in both sexes. As the school girls grow up earlier, their blood pressure rose first, but after 16 years this fact changed: 126 +/- 3.5 x 76 +/- 2.8 in males and 115 +/- 2.0 x 74 +/- 1.9 in females. Students with a family history of hypertension had higher blood pressure than students without and the prevalence of systolic and diastolic hypertension was higher in the first group: 12.2 and 13.8 to 4.7 and 3.8% respectively. Diastolic blood pressure was dominant in only in males Negros. The prevalence of systolic and diastolic hypertension was 6.9% in these 1,000 students.
authors.affiliation: Dep. de Clín. Méd., Fac. de Med., Univ. de Mogi das Cruzes.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Simonatto
authors.forename: M de D
authors.initials: Mde D
authors.lastname: Dias
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Abensur
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cruz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D000886:Anthropometry; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D044469:Racial Groups; D012737:Sex Factors; D013334:Students
vernacular_title: Hipertensão arterial em escolares da Grande São Paulo.