Nutritional status of school-aged children and its relation to blood pressure / El estado nutricional de niños escolares y su relación con la tensión arterial
Arch. argent. pediatr
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111(2): 0-0, Apr. 2013. ilus
Article
in English
| LILACS
| ID: lil-671990
ABSTRACT
Introduction. Obesity is associated with a wide range of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Objective. To establish an association between the nutritional status of 6-10 year old boys and girls and blood pressure. Population and Methods. A cross-sectional, analytical study was conducted in 6-10 year old schoolboys and schoolgirls. Outcome measures and indicators studied included nutritional status as per body mass index; presence of central fat mass distribution estimated by waist circumference; and blood pressure (height, age and gender tables). Differences in mean values were analyzed using a Student's t test. The relationship between outcome measures was estimated using Pearson's correlation coefficient. Linear regression models were adjusted for systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure using the following explanatory outcome measures:
z scores for body mass index, age, gender and waist circumference.Results:
Five hundred and fifty five male and female children were evaluated; they were all younger than 11 years old. A total of 26.3% was overweight and 15.1% was obese. The prevalence of hypertension was 1.08%. Results show a positive linear relationship between systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and age and waist circumference, and a trend is observed between systolic blood pressure and the body mass index z score (p= 0.068). Conclusion. Overweight and obesity were the most common nutritional disorders in schoolaged children in the studied district; there is an association between age, waist circumference, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and between systolic blood pressure and the body mass index z score.
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Main subject:
Blood Pressure
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Nutritional Status
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prevalence study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Arch. argent. pediatr
Journal subject:
Pediatrics
Year:
2013
Type:
Article
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