The Prevalence of Elevated Blood Pressure in Adolescents in Nassau, the Bahamas

Abstract

Objective: To determine the prevalence of elevated blood pressure (EBP) IMC = 0.25, p < 0.001; β edad = 0.14, p < 0.001; β peso = 0.08, p < 0.037) y PAD (β PAD = 0.192,

Blood Pressure in Schoolchildren and Adolescents and its Variation according to Nutritional Status Evaluation: An Early Preventive Key for Obesity Comorbidities

“…The first is related to the data that forecast that overweight children are at increased risk of becoming obese adults which may lead to shorter life expectancies in the current generation of children compared to their parents [4]. The second comes after well-designed studies in different parts [5,6] in which overweight adolescents have risks of 2.7 or greater for suffering from Elevated Blood Pressure (EBP). Once at this point it is worth adding how this problem will become greater [7] as the increasing prevalence of obesity is not being curved in the next decade.…”