Fatores de risco para doenças cardiovasculares em crianças de 3 a 12 anos filhos de hipertensos

Abstract

Objective: to investigate the relation of risk factors to coronary heart disease in children from 3 to 12 years old, children of fathers with hypertension, attended at the family health unit at Recife city, PE. Methods: this is about an exploratory, descriptive, cohort study performed with 43 children, from 3 to 12 years, children of fathers with hypertension, taken care from May to October 2006. For data collection was used a questionnaire structuralized. The associations among variable had been verified by the Qui-square test. This study has been approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Hospital Oswaldo Cruz of the University of Pernambuco. Results: 25 children of the masculine sex had been evaluated and 18 of the feminine one, weight excess in 18% of the children was demonstrated, sedentarism was detected in 45%, the hypertension occurred in 23% of the children; 57% of the parents had incomplete basic education and 20% familiar income of one minimum salary. Conclusions: the overweight and the obesity had been associates with raised levels more of systolic arterial pressure. The gotten results had indicated association between risk factors for cardiovascular illnesses, confirming the familiar influence in these risk factors. Descriptors: cardiovascular risk; arterial hypertension; childhood; adolescence.