Prevalence of high blood pressure and association with obesity in Spanish schoolchildren aged 4-6 years old.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prevalence of high blood pressure in children is increasing worldwide, largely, but not entirely, driven by the concurrent childhood obesity epidemic. The aims of this study were to examine the prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension in 4-to-6-year-old Spanish schoolchildren, and to evaluate the association between different blood pressure (BP) components with different adiposity indicators.

Methods

Cross-sectional study including a sample of 1.604 schoolchildren aged 4-to-6-years belonging to 21 schools from the provinces of Ciudad Real and Cuenca, Spain. We measured height, weight, body mass index (BMI), fat mass percentage (%FM), triceps skinfold thickness (TST), waist circumference (WC), systolic and diastolic BP, mean arterial pressure and pulse pr

SUBMITTER: Martin-Espinosa N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5283678 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature