%0 Journal Article
%T Press£¿o arterial em crian£¿as portadoras de doen£¿a falciforme
%A Hsien
%A Ho Chi
%A Carvalhaes
%A Jo£¿o Thomas A.
%A Braga
%A Josefina Aparecida P.
%J Revista Paulista de Pediatria
%D 2012
%I Sociedade de Pediatria de S?o Paulo
%R 10.1590/S0103-05822012000100013
%X objective: to evaluate blood pressure (bp) in children with sickle cell disease (scd). methods: observational descriptive study of bp in 70 children with scd. bp values were classified according to the v brazilian guidelines in arterial hypertension. patients were divided into groups according to genotype (hbss, hbsc) and according to age: group i, three to four years and 11 months; group ii, five to eight years and 11 months; and group iii, nine to 13 years and 11 months. the student's t test and anova were used for statistical analyses, and the level of significance was set at p<0.05. results: mean and standard deviation (sd) of systolic bp (sbp) (mmhg) were 95.9¡À11.45, and of diastolic bp (dbp), 62.6¡À7.78. means according to age group were: group i - sbp 91.2¡À5.78 and dbp 61.5¡À7.15; group ii - sbp 97.3¡À10.86 and dbp 64.4¡À7.89; and group iii - sbp 100.0¡À9.88 and dbp 61.5¡À4.94. results showed that 5.7% of the patients had hypertension and 8.6%, pre-hypertension. mean sbp and dbp of hbsc and hbss patients did not differ. conclusions: further studies should be conducted to assess bp in patients with scd and determine possible causes of hypertension in these patients.
%K blood pressure
%K hypertension
%K anemia
%K sickle cell
%K child.
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