Table 1.
Characteristics of the study sample.
Table 2.
Partial correlations coefficients (r) of systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, mean arterial pressure and pulse pressure with BMI, %fat mass, WC and TST controlling for age.
Fig 1.
Prevalence of normotensive, prehypertension and hypertension in children, by sex and in the total sample.
Abbreviations: PreHTA = prehypertension; HTA = hypertension. aHTA includes stages 1 and 2. *Indicates sex differences in the prevalence of HTA category (p<0.05).
Table 3.
Mean differences in blood pressure parameters according to adiposity categories in total sample, controlling for age.