[Prevalence study of hypertension among students at the Medical Science Department of the University of Taubaté].
OBJECTIVE
To study the prevalence of hypertension related on the exposition to the main risk factors.


METHODS
We studied 153 students of the Medical Science Department of Taubaté University, aged between 17 to 35 years. The chosen method was the stratified simple aleatory sample.


RESULTS
The prevalence of hypertension was 5.88% where all of them had one or more risk factor. A significant systolic blood pressure increase in male was found by comparing to the female.


CONCLUSIONS
The risk factors considered alone, did not change the mean value of the hypertension, while the obesity when associated with one or more risk factors showed a considerable increase on the averages of diastolic blood pressure.
Fonseca
L R
LR
Departamento de Ciências Médicas, Universidade de Taubaté, São Paulo.
da Silva
F T
FT
Natividade
J E
JE
Schmidt
L O
LO
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D013337:Students, Medical
Estudo da prevalência de hipertensão arterial em acadêmicos do Departamento de Ciências Médicas da Universidade de Taubaté.