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CORREDERA GUERRA, Roberto Francisco; VILLAR BADIA, Yanet; GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ, Tania Rosa  y  GOMEZ URBINA, Reynaldo. Arterial pressure values in healthy students from a primary school of Cerro municipality. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2009, vol.25, n.1. ISSN 0864-2125.

INTRODUCTION: hypertension is a marked health problem at world scale determining significant causes of morbidity, in which are involved genetic and environmental factors. Infantile arterial pressure increases progressively during years, and it is a significant variable to be considered. AIM: to characterize behavior of some cardiovascular and nutritional variables in supposedly healthy students. METHODS: authors made a cross-sectional descriptive study in supposedly health students from a primary school of Cerro municipality in Havana City from December 1st 2006 to February 28, 2007. Sample included 358 children of both sexes aged between 5 and 11. Study variable were: systolic high blood pressure, diastolic arterial pressure, mean arterial pressure, cardiac frequency, weight, height and body mass index (BMI). RESULTS: results show figures of systolic arterial pressure between 77 and 104 mmHg, diastolic arterial pressure between 43 and 64 mmHg, whereas mean arterial pressure oscillate in a interval of 57-72 mmHg. Cardiac frequency was greater in younger ones regarding those oldest. Weight, height and MBI increase with age. CONCLUSIONS: we conclude that systolic, diastolic and mean arterial pressure in students of both sexes increase with age, but not cardiac frequency, whose trend is to decrease insofar as age increases. Values corresponding to BMI increase with age.

Palabras clave : Arterial pressure; BMI.

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