[Epidemiological observations on the significance of the relations between elevated values of essential arterial pressure in schoolchildren and their parents].
The results of an epidemiological screening of 1,228 parents and 614 children, pupils in the V-XII forms of 12 schools of different types, are presented. It is suggested that when parents present elevated blood pressure values their children, although normotensive, are at high risk, especially in case more risk factors are present. The relation hypertensive parents--hypertensive offsprings was strongly significant. In the hypertensive children with normotensive parents the high frequency of some life-style dependent risk factors is discussed. The relationship between risk factors and morbidity by essential hypertension both in parents and their offsprings and the need of primary and secondary prevention programs for pupils are underlined.
Ivan
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Policlinica Medicală, Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie Iaşi.
Groll
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M
Mitroi
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I
Hurjui
J
J
Vieriu
V
V
Azoicăi
D
D
D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors
Observaţii epidemiologice asupra semnificaţiei unor relaţii între creşterea valorilor tensiunii arteriale esenţiale la elevi şi părinţii acestora.