title: [Prevalence of high blood pressure and their association with body mass index in children between 5 and 11 years of Nahbalam, Yucatan].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the prevalence of high blood pressure in children aged between 5-11 years in the community of Nahbalam, Yucatan, and its association with the body mass index.
  
  
  METHODS
  A transversal study with children of the primary school "Lazaro Cardenas del Rio" was performed, measuring blood pressure, height, and weight of 259 girls and boys; systolic and/or diastolic blood pressure equal or greater than percentile 95 for gender, age, and height at three measures was considered as hypertension; prehypertension was considered as blood pressure equal or greater than percentile 90 but lower than percentile 95.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A prevalence of 11.9% prehypertension and 6.1% hypertension was found. There is an association between hypertension and overweight and obesity (p ≤ 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prevalence of high blood pressure in children of the community of Nahbalam, Yucatan, is 18%. The children with overweight and obesity have an almost tenfold greater risk of hypertension than the eutrophic children (OR: 9.896; 95% CI: 2.738-35.764).
authors: Centro de Salud Nahbalam, Secretaría de Salud de Yucatán, Jurisdicción Sanitaria, México.
authors: Leonel Alejandro
authors: LA
authors: Saury-Paredes
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D050177:Overweight / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D058246:Prehypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence