فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity and hypertension (HTN) are among serious global healthconcerns. Since risk factors of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) should be managed early in lifeand there is little information about children under the age of 6 in the community, the study wasdesigned aiming to address these issues.METHODS: This cross-sectional study was performed on 1,091, 3-6-year-old children in GorganCity, located in north of Iran. Height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and blood pressure weremeasured using standard techniques. All statistical tests were conducted using the StatisticalPackage for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for windows.RESULTS: Given the study, respectively 3.8 and 4.5% of the boys and girls were underweight, 17.4and 16.5% of the boys and girls were overweight, and 20.8 and 19.3% of the boys and girls wereobese. In addition, 3.4, 0.7, and 0.4% of the subjects had presystolic, systolic, and prediastolicHTN, respectively. There is a significant linear relationship between BMI and systolic and diastolicblood pressures. It was found that the risk of obesity in mothers with college education wasestimated to be almost 5 times higher than in mothers with lower levels of education.CONCLUSION: Compared to the values announced by Centers for Disease Control andPrevention (CDC), the mean height, weight, and BMI of children in our study was higher.Educational interventions should be considered in society, especially for mothers with a highlevel of education and employed ones. It is recommended that blood pressure measurements,especially in obese children, be carefully considered at each pediatric visit so that children withHTN could be quickly identified and treated.