Abstract

AGUILAR, Irene; BUSTAMANTE, Geumil; CASTILLO, Vianca  and  TERAN, Iris. Lifestyle and hypertension in adolescents liceo agustín codazzi: Maracay, venezuela. 2008-2009. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2010, vol.8, n.2, pp.33-40. ISSN 1690-3293.

The High Blood Pressure states a public health problem, which may be presented since childhood, decreasing both, quality and expectation of life on the affected ones resulting an urge knowledge of prevalence and influence of lifestyles on such pathology, therefore a transversal cut descriptive study was made among 232 students (20,7% of the population) at Agustìn Codazzi high school, Aragua state, determining pathological personal background, psychobiological and nutritional habits attached to body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure (BP).In the results were found normal levels of systolic and diastolic blood pressure in 3,08% and 12,5% respectively. And 1,29% and 2,16% of high values for systolic and diastolic. Most of them prefer to spend much of their time in sedentary activities. They deny smoking and coffee consumption, one third of the sample expressed alcohol intake. In general three quarters of the sample preferred eaten raw, boiled or roasted with the remaining fried foods, sweets cakes or stewed . Finally, the variables systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure were significantly correlated with the variable mass index. Therefore we concluded that food intake is closely related to the increase of blood pressure and sedentary but not in this population

Keywords : Blood pressure; adolescents; lifestyles; body mass index (BMI).

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