Abstract

DIAZ CASTRILLO, Amparo Olga; TAMARGO RODRIGUEZ, Nelson; PINDAY PUESCAS, José Jesús  and  RAVO ESPINOZA, Josué Jonathan. Prevalence of hypertension in adolescents of "Salvador Allende" senior high school. MEDISAN [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.7, pp. 925-930. ISSN 1029-3019.

An analytic cross-sectional study, was carried out from October, 2012 to February, 2013 in 829 scholars of tenth, and eleventh grades who studied in "Salvador Allende" senior high school in Boyeros, Havana city, aimed at determining the prevalence of hypertension and its association with some risk factors. It was found that the general prevalence of prehypertensive students was 3.8 and that of hypertensive students of 5.9 every 100 students; also, there was an association between this prevalence and body mass index. Finally, this prevalence was in the permissible range in international investigations and it was evident that this disease was unknown for more than 90% of the affected students

Keywords : adolescents; senior high school; hypertension; risk factor; body mass index.

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