Relation between the Nutritional Status Type and the Arterial Blood Pressure in 9-15-year-old Schoolchildren from Sofia

摘要

The aim of the present work is to investigate the age-dependent changes of Nutritional Status (NS) and Arterial Blood Pressure (ABP) in 9-15-year-old schoolchildren from Sofia, the generation living at the beginning of the 21st century and to evaluate the relationships between ABP and the anthropologically determined NS. The analyzed data represent a part of complex cross-sectional anthropological study including 1142 schoolchildren, attending three schools in Sofia. The study was carried out during the years 2001 and 2002. It was established that the "hypertension" ABP was found to be four times more often among the overweighed schoolchildren than among the ones with normal NS. The frequency of girls with "hypertension" Systolic Blood Pressure (SAP) between 9 and 14 years was consistently higher than it was in the boys between these ages. Among obese schoolchildren the frequency of those with "hypertension" SBP has increased markedly, better expressed in girls.