title: [Assessment of association of birth weight and existence of hypertension in children and adolescents normostenic, obese or with metabolic syndrome].
abstract: It has been proved that Low Birth Weight (LBW) is a predisposing factor of elevated blood pressure in children. The aim of our study was to analyze birth weight of patients with diagnosed hypertension (HT). There has been 114 children, 6 to 17 years old, included into our study. We decided to divide them into 3 following groups: Group I--normal body mass and HT (51 children); Group II--metabolic syndrome (MS) with HT (32 children); Group III--overweight and obese children with HT (31 children). At 85% of all patients HT was diagnosed after performing ABPM. Statistically significant difference of birth weight was observed between patients with normal body mass (I) and those with overweight or obesity (III) (p<0,01). The most number of children with LBW (<2500 g) was observed in Group I (15.7%) and Group II (12.5%). It was observed that obese children with HT had had normal or high birth weigh (96.8%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  1. The frequency of low birth weight is similar in normostenic children with hipertension and children with metabolic syndrome. 2. The birth weight higher than 4000 g is more frequent in obesy hipertensive children and children with metabolic syndrome than in normo-stenic patients with hipertension.
authors.affiliation: Z Katedry i Oddziału Klinicznego Pediatrii, Slaskiej Akademii Medycznej w Bytomiu. pedbyt@slam.katowice.pl
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kniazewska
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Obuchowicz
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zmudzińska-Kitczak
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Urban
authors.forename: Celina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bukowska
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D015897:Comorbidity; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight / Q000502:physiology; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012016:Reference Values; D012307:Risk Factors