Rodríguez VN, Fernández-Britto JE, Martínez PTP, Martínez GR, Castañeda GC, Jo PM, Garriga RM, Plana LR

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Obesity is a surplus of body fat that generally and not always is accompanied by an increase of body weight. Is one of the biggest problems in the world today. Besides that obesity is more frequently seen in children and teenagers (been the most frequent nutritional disorder in developed countries), at this age this disease is revealed with psychological changes and serious complications. Cardiovascular diseases are one of the first causes of death in the world. For example, in 2001, a third of the deaths in the world were caused by these diseases, a current trend. Hypertension is well known as one of the most important health problems in the contemporary medicine, in developed and in the process of developing countries. Significant advances has been achieved concerning detection, development and management of hypertension in pediatric ages, through identification and monitoring of children and teenagers with elevated primary arterial tension figures as a detectable and preventable disease. Objective: To determine if the high weight at birth is a predictive factor for the combination of nutritional condition, overweight, obesity and arterial tension in 7 to 11 year old children. Method: A descriptive study with a type case-control design was done in children that were born between January 1992 and December 1995 to identify as early as possible the link between obesity and hypertension. Results: According to the nutritional assessment of the children and the arterial tension in both groups, we see that in the study group, that the overweight are pre hypertensive at a 7.14 % e and hypertensive 5.01 and in obese 5.00 % are pre hypertensive and 7.15 % are hypertensive with a p= 0.0000, in the control group we can see that the overweight 8.00 % are pre hypertensive and 2.00 % are hypertensive and in the obese 8,00 % are pre hypertensive and 3.00 %, are hypertensive with a p= 0.2811. Conclusions: High birth weight is a predictive factor for the combination of nutritional condition and arterial tension. The link between nutritional condition and pre hypertension and hypertension is worrying in the study group. The number of pre hypertensive in both groups must be pointed out.