Background:

hypertension is an important cause of mobility, damage of target organs, where precocious detection of hypertensive adolescents without symptoms is important as a marker of risk of future hypertension during adult age.

Objective:

to characterize essential hypertension in adolescents.

Methods:

a longitudinal retrospective analytic study was carried out in teens affiliated in the University Pediatric Hospital Dr. Eduardo Agramonte Piña, of the province Camagüey, coming from the areas of health diagnosed by systematic investigation, but for being symptomatic, during the period understood from January 2017 to January 2019. El the universe was compound for 42 patients with diagnosis of essential hypertension.

Results:

the greatest number of hypertensive was the masculine sex in both age groups, white skin, the family record of hypertension, and the obesity as cardiovascular risk factors, headaches as the most frequent clinical manifestation, the non-pharmacologic treatment was recommended in all patients, along with the pharmacologic treatment in the majority of the patients.

Conclusions:

the essential hypertension constitutes a problem of health in the studied teens, which were associated with the presence of cardiovascular risk factors. The familiar pathological antecedent of hypertension and obesity were the most frequent.

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