title: [Arterial hypertension in childhood and adolescence].
abstract: One thousand six hundred and ninety-eight children and adolescents four to eighteen years-old were studied, eight hundred and forty of them were males and eight hundred and fifty-eight females. No individual following, was performed. Two determinations of both systolic and diastolic pressure were registered after a fifteen minutes rest, and the average figures of both, of them was registered. The group analyzed belonged to upper middle class and the hypertension figures were: females 28 (3.26%) and males 30 (3.57%). The influence of bodily area was observed en hypertensive patients. Those located between the average +/- two standard deviations were considered as normal. (95% of the cases).
authors.affiliation: Cátedra de Medicina III, Hospital Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
authors.forename: A O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Lódolo
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Novoa
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sakuyama
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Lódolo
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Palma
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Martínez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values
vernacular_title: Hipertension arterial en la niñez y en la adolescencia.