Factors associated with pre-hypertension in young school-aged adults
International Journal of Development Research
Factors associated with pre-hypertension in young school-aged adults
Received 27th August, 2019; Received in revised form 10th September, 2019; Accepted 19th October, 2019; Published online 30th November, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Thiago Santos Garces et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: To analyze the factors associated with pre-hypertension in young school-aged adults. Design and Sample: Cross-sectional study conducted from August 2015 to September 2016 with 1073 young school-aged adults in schools from Fortaleza-Ceará-Brazil. Measures: In the multivariate analysis, the statistical procedure for adjusting the potential confounding effects was the logistic regression. Results: The pre-hypertension is 5.5 more prevalent in men, while those with a family history of hypertension is 1.5 more prevalent. Moreover, for those who work more than eight hours a day, the prevalence of pre-hypertension is 1.9 higher. Among those with overweigh and abdominal adiposity, the prevalence of the outcome was, respectively, 2.5 and 1.6 higher. Conclusions: The prevalence of pre-hypertension in young school-aged adults is useful to monitoring this condition and incorporation of its registers in daily practices of health systems, subsidizing public polices of promotion to health allowing the development of nursing preventive actions.
