Abstract

CASTILLO HERRERA, José A.  and  VILLAFRANCA HERNANDEZ, Orlando. Primary high blood pressure in early ages in life: a challenge for health services. Rev Cubana Invest Bioméd [online]. 2009, vol.28, n.3, pp. 147-157. ISSN 1561-3011.

Arterial hypertension presents in Cuba, a high prevalence and it is the main risk factor of coronary heart disease, who is the first cause of death . In the physiopathology of hypertension are involved genetic factors such as the heredability, family aggregation and segregation, besides the amendable environmental factors, as obesity, sedentary, smoke habit, alcoholism, foods ingestion with high content of salt and saturated fats and others. Recent investigations carried out in seemingly healthy children have demonstrated that the primary arterial hypertension in early ages of the life, it is more frequent than is believed. This article refers topics about the physiopathology, prevention, diagnostic, evaluation, control, treatment and prognostic of hypertension and emphasize the strategic importance of the frequent measurement the arterial blood pressure to children and adolescents with father and/or mother with hypertension history with overweight or obesity, that it will has a positive impact in the decrease of the prevalence, morbimortality and complications of this deleterious illness in the mature age.

Keywords : hypertension; physiopathology; detection; evaluation; diagnosis; control; treatment; childhood.

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