Morbilidad oculta hipertensión arterial en la población de 5 a 14 años en el Colegio Carlos Julio Arosemena. Centro de Salud Pascuales. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: Hypertension (HT) worldwide has a high incidence and its increasing prevalence is attributed to population increase, aging and risk factors related to lifestyle, such as obesity, poor eating habits, use of toxic substances, history family, sedentary lifestyle, and stress. A silent disease that causes millions of deaths a year and causes disabilities in young people. The infrequent control of blood pressure in children during medical consultations motivates them to study them to observe their behavior and risk factors associated with this disease to avoid complications and death in adulthood from this pediatric stage. Materials and methods: The type of research is descriptive, observational, cross-sectional and prospective, it included students from 5 to 14 years of Carlos Julio Arosemena school. The main variables are: age, sex, ethnicity, schooling, family history, frequency and type of food, physical activity, smoking, drugs, weight, height, nutritional status and blood pressure. Results: The frequency of mild hypertension in the population of 321 children was 6.2% and the male sex predominated; while the female sex was detected high normal pressure figures for age according to the percentile with 8.8%. As risk factors were observed overweight, obesity, family history and bad eating habits. Conclusions: There is hidden morbidity of hypertension at pediatric ages where the incidence of this disease is increasing, and as risk factors are overweight, obesity, physical inactivity, family history and poor eating habits.