[Pilot study of arterial blood pressure in the school children of Girona and its province].

UNLABELLED The arterial blood pressure was measured in 1,494 school children (810 boys and 684 girls) 5 to 14 years old who attended 46 schools in the province of Girona. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY to establish the distribution of arterial blood pressure in school children in our community in empirical percentiles according to chronologic and anthropometric variables (age, height, weight and body surface). In our study the systolic arterial blood pressure increased significantly (p less than 0.001) in both sexes in all the variables studied. The simple correlations in decreasing order were, in boys: body surface, weight, height and age, and in girls: weight, body surface, height and age. However, there was no correlation between the diastolic arterial blood pressure in either sex with the variables studied.