[Statistical analysis of risk factors for hypertension in obese children]

The aim of this work is the recognition, if any, of connection of arterial hypertension and some risk factors in obese children. In the schools of two little towns of our Region 114 subjects were selected, 57 males and 57 females, aged between 6, 5 and 15 years, with a body weight superior to that corresponding to the 95th percentils in the same age class. The blood pressure values were related to age and height and it was decided to consider hypertese those children whose pressure values corresponded to 95th and 97, 5th, respectively in the same class of age and height. The number of hypertese children in our group demonstrate that diastolic pressure in the height scale results especially increased among the age group 13-15 years in connection to size (females 75%, males 41, 7%). The connection between family diabetes and family hypertension have been shown significant. It can be pointed out that the risk factors for hypertension may be: age over 13 years, feminine, sex, family diabetes, family hypertension.