Hygiena 2016, 61(4):141-145

Determinants of Prehypertension and Hypertension in Adolescents within the Project Respect for Health

Miroslava Podolinská1, Eva Horváthová2, Soňa Wimmerová2, Zora Gerová1
1 Regionálny úrad verejného zdravotníctva Bratislava hl. m. so sídlom v Bratislave, Bratislava, Slovenská republika
2 Slovenská zdravotnícka univerzita v Bratislave, Bratislava, Slovenská republika

Background: In Slovakia, prevalence of hypertension and its determinants in the population of adolescents have not been systematically monitored. In this study we present the results of observing the impacts of selected risk factors of lifestyle (overweight, obesity, physical inactivity, excessive time spent over sedentary activities, salting, consumption of food with high salt content, smoking) on blood pressure in high school youth. Our goal has been to define the determinants of prehypertension and hypertension in students of Bratislava district, high schools in.
Population and methods: The targeted group was composed of 4,242 healthy adolescents (48% boys and 52% girls) at the age of 15-19 who had participated in the project Respect for health between November 2011 and December 2012. Participation in the project was conditioned by an informed consent of their parents. In standard fashion, we measured their blood pressure and anthropometric parameters. We had been detecting chosen factors of behavior via an anonymous questionnaire. Subsequently, multinomial logistic regression has been applied to monitor the relations between the variables. We adjusted the models to age and gender.

Results: The odds of prehypertension and hypertension were significantly higher among the students with overweight (p < 0.001; p < 0.001), obesity (p < 0.001; p < 0.001) and those who spend, during a workweek in the scope of their spare time, more than two hours daily at the screen of their computers or TV's. (p = 0.007; p = 0.001).

Conclusion: It has been proven that overweight, obesity and a great amount of time spent on the computer and/or TV in the adolescents has a significant impact on blood pressure. It is important to commence the prevention of these risky factors at the early age of children since children establish their lifelong customs at that stage of their life.

Keywords: hypertension, lifestyle, adolescents

Received: February 2016; Accepted: May 27, 2016; Published: December 1, 2016  Show citation

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Podolinská M, Horváthová E, Wimmerová S, Gerová Z. Determinants of Prehypertension and Hypertension in Adolescents within the Project Respect for Health. Hygiena. 2016;61(4):141-145.
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