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Weight status and hypertension among adolescent girls in Argentina and Norway: Data from the ENNyS and HUNT studies

Stray-Pedersen, Marit; Helsing, Ragnhild Marie; Gibbons, Luz; Cormick, Gabriela; Holmen, Turid Lingaas; Vik, Torstein; Bélizan, José
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/1596450
Date
2009
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BMC Public Health 2009, 9:398   10.1186/1471-2458-9-398
Abstract
Background: To provide data on overweight, obesity and hypertension among adolescent girls in

Norway and Argentina.

Methods: Data was obtained from two population-based, cross-sectional and descriptive studies

containing anthropometric and blood pressure measurements of 15 to 18 year old girls. The study

included 2,156 adolescent girls from Norway evaluated between 1995 and 1997, and 669 from

Argentina evaluated between 2004 and 2005.

Results: Around 15% of adolescent girls in Norway and 19% in Argentina are overweight or obese.

Body mass index (BMI) distribution in these two countries is similar, with a low percentage (< 1%)

of girls classified as thin. Norwegian adolescents show a height mean value 8 cm taller than the

Argentinean. Obesity is strongly associated with systolic hypertension in both populations, with

odds ratios of 11.4 [1.6; 82.0] and 28.3 [11.8; 67.7] in Argentina and Norway, respectively. No

direct association between BMI and systolic hypertension was found, and only extreme BMI values

(above 80th - 90th percentile) were associated with hypertension.

Conclusion: This study confirms a current world health problem by showing the high prevalence

of obesity in adolescents and its association with hypertension in two different countries (one

developed and one in transition).
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BioMed Central
Journal
BMC Public Health

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