Prevalence and predictors of hypertension in children and adolescents: Results of National Survey of Iranian Children and Adolescents

Abstract

Hypertension (HTN) is a silent killer and preventable non-communicable diseases. The aim of this study was to investigating prevalence and predictors of HTN in children and adolescents. This cross sectional study was conducted on 1035 children and adults aged 6 to 18 years old who lived in Yazd in Iran.Data was analyzed using SPSS 20 software, Microsoft excel 2013 and STATA version 14. Chi-square test was used to calculating the prevalence of HTN and binary logistic regression (BLR) was used to modeling. The results of our study showed that; the prevalence of HTN was 17.4% (15.87–20.79) in total participants, 16.9(13.56 ± 20.64) in boys and 17.8(14.75–21.15) in girls. HTN was significantly associated with age 10–14 years (OR = 1.61 (95% CI:1.02–2.55)), age 15–18 years (0.54(0.29–0.99)) diabetes (8.87(1.02–76.66)), LDL (1.89(1.01–3.52)), father education (Grad. Diploma) (2.16 (95% CI:1.06–4.41)) and mother Education (high school Diploma) (0.33(0.17–0.62)). Our study showed that the prevalence of hypertension was high in students 5–6 years old. HTN was significantly associated with age, diabetes, LDL, parental education level.