Caracterización antropométrica en una población de hipertensos esenciales

This research work is focussed on identifing the anthropological features on patients suffering from hipertensión, and to evaluate its relationship with thedevelopment of the hypertension illness.We used common methods the ammounts of central tendency, the "t" test, to compare groups of cases, control groups and gender. We used a correlation analysis to determine the degree of correspondence between the anthropometrical values, and the blood pressure filtres (systolic and diastolic).The ratio odds were calculated, and their reliance intervals to evalúate the association strenght between the risk factors selected, total body fat, waist, wrist measure, body mass indicator, and blood pressure. The logistic test was applied to evaluate the contribution of the selected variables to the development of hipertensión. The variables that showed significantcorrespondence were age an suprailaic folds. In women suffering from hipertensión the fat distribution pattem remained constant and under normal tensión.In men with normal tensión and hipertensión the behavior of these patterns was constant, so there is an unusual bio-homogenity in the group of study, thi scanbe due to the features of the sample. A simple model to predict Hta. is proposed. El trabajo se enfoca a identificar las características antropométricas del sujeto hipertenso y a evaluar su eventual asociación con el desarrollo de la enfermedad hipertensiva.