Pressão arterial de crianças e adolescentes de uma escola pública de Fortaleza - Ceará Presión arterial de niños y adolescentes de una escuela pública de Fortaleza-Ceará Blood pressure of children and teenagers from a public school in Fortaleza-Ceará

OBJETIVO: O objetivo do estudo foi analisar a evolução dos valores da pressão arterial sistólica (PAS), da pressão arterial diastólica (PAD) e das medidas antropométricas de crianças e adolescentes que apresentaram alteração da pressão arterial em uma primeira avaliação. MÉTODOS: Estudo longitudinal, realizado nos meses de outubro de 2004 a dezembro de 2005, em uma escola pública de Fortaleza, Ceará. Cento e cinqüenta e um indivíduos com idades entre seis e dezessete anos foram avaliados e acompanhados por um período de um ano. RESULTADOS: As variáveis idade, escolaridade, peso, altura, índice de massa corporal, perímetro da cintura, perímetro do quadril, circunferência do braço e prega subescapular estiveram correlacionadas positiva e significativamente com os valores da PAS e da PAD. Houve diferença de mediana entre as variáveis: sexo, grau de parentesco para hipertensão arterial, fumante passivo com a PAS e com a PAD. CONCLUSÃO: Observou-se que a PAS e a PAD das crianças e dos adolescentes diminuíram ao longo das avaliações.<br>OBJETIVO: En este estudio se tuvo como objetivo analizar la evolución de los valores de la presión arterial sistólica (PAS), de la presión arterial diastólica (PAD) y de las medidas antropométricas de niños y adolescentes que presentaron alteración de la presión arterial en una primera evaluación. MÉTODOS: Se trata de un estudio longitudinal, realizado en los meses de octubre del 2004 a diciembre del 2005, en una escuela pública de Fortaleza, Ceará. Ciento cincuenta y un individuos con edades entre seis y diecisiete años fueron evaluados y acompañados por el período de un año. RESULTADOS: Las variables edad, escolaridad, peso, altura, índice de masa corporal, perímetro de la cintura, perímetro de la cadera, circunferencia del brazo y pliegue subescapular estuvieron correlacionadas positiva y significativamente con los valores de la PAS y de la PAD. Hubo diferencia de mediana entre las variables: sexo, grado de parentesco para hipertensión arterial, fumador pasivo con la PAS y con la PAD. CONCLUSIÓN: Se observó que la PAS y la PAD de los niños y adolescentes disminuyeron a lo largo de las evaluaciones.<br>OBJECTIVE: To analyze the evolution of systolic blood pressure (SAP), diastolic blood pressure (DAP) and anthropometric measurement values of children and teenagers who presented altered arterial pressure on a first evaluation. METHODS: Follow-up study, performed from October / 2004 to December / 2005, at a public school in Fortaleza. One hundred fifty-one subjects between six and seventeen years old were accompanied and evaluated for a period of one year. RESULTS: It was observed that the SAP and DAP of children and teenagers decreased along the evaluations. The variables age, education, weight, height, body mass index, waist perimeter, hip perimeter, arm and subscapular skin fold circumference were correlated positive and significantly with SAP and DAP values. There was a difference in median among the variables: Gender, kinship degree for arterial hypertension, passive smoker with SAP and DAP. CONCLUSION: It was observed that the SAP and DAP of children and adolescents decreased along the evaluations

Potato consumption does not increase blood pressure or incident hypertension in 2 cohorts of Spanish adults

5 TablasBackground: Potatoes have a high glycemic load but also antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. It is unclear what mechanisms are involved in relation to their effect on blood pressure (BP) and hypertension. Objectives: This study aimed to assess the association between potato consumption, BP changes, and the risk of hypertension in 2 Spanish populations. Methods: Separate analyses were performed in PREDIMED (PREvención con DIeta MEDiterránea), a multicenter nutrition intervention trial of adults aged 55-80 y, and the SUN (Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra) project, a prospective cohort made up of university graduates and educated adults with ages (means±SDs) of 42.7±13.3 y for men and 35.1± 10.7 y for women. In PREDIMED, generalized estimating equations adjusted for lifestyle and dietary characteristics were used to assess changes in BP across quintiles of total potato consumption during a 4-y follow-up. Controlled BP values (systolic BP < 140 mm Hg and diastolic BP < 90 mm Hg) during follow-up were also assessed. For SUN, multivariateadjusted HRs for incident hypertension during a mean 6.7-y follow-up were calculated. Results: In PREDIMED, the total potato intake was 81.9 ± 40.6 g/d. No overall differences in systolic or diastolic BP changes were detected based on consumption of potatoes. For total potatoes, the mean difference in change between quintile 5 (highest intake) and quintile 1 (lowest intake) in systolic BP after multivariate adjustment was 20.90 mm Hg (95% CI: -2.56, 0.76 mm Hg; P-trend = 0.1) and for diastolic BP was 20.02 mm Hg (95% CI: -0.93, 0.89 mm Hg; P-trend = 0.8). In SUN, the total potato consumption was 52.7 ± 33.6 g/d, and no significant association between potato consumption and hypertension incidence was observed in the fully adjusted HR for total potato consumption (quintile 5 compared with quintile 1: 0.98; 95% CI: 0.80, 1.19; P-trend = 0.8). Conclusions: Potato consumption is not associated with changes over 4 y in blood pressure among older adults in Spain or with the risk of hypertension among Spanish adults.Supported by the official funding agency for biomedical research of the Spanish Government, Instituto de Salud Carlos III through grants provided to research networks specifically developed for the trial (RTIC G03/140, to RE; RTIC RD 06/0045, to MAM-G) and through Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), and by grants from Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC 06/2007), Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria–Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional [Proyecto de Investigación (PI) 04-2239, PI 05/2584, CP06/00100, PI07/0240, PI07/1138, PI07/0954, PI 07/0473, PI10/01407, PI10/02658, PI11/01647, P11/02505 and PI13/00462], Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación [Recursos y teconologia agroalimentarias (AGL)-2009-13906-C02 and AGL2010-22319-C03 and AGL2013-49083-C3-1-R], Fundación Mapfre 2010, the Consejería de Salud de la Junta de Andalucía (PI0105/2007), the Public Health Division of the Department of Health of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Generalitat Valenciana [Generalitat Valenciana Ayuda Complementaria (GVACOMP) 06109, GVACOMP2010-181, GVACOMP2011-151], Conselleria de Sanitat y AP; Atención Primaria (CS) 2010-AP-111 and CS2011-AP-042, and Regional Government of Navarra (P27/2011)

Dietary inflammatory index and all-cause mortality in large cohorts: The SUN and PREDIMED studies

[Background]: Inflammation is known to be related to the leading causes of death including cardiovascular disease, several types of cancer, obesity, type 2 diabetes, depression-suicide and other chronic diseases. In the context of whole dietary patterns, the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII®) was developed to appraise the inflammatory potential of the diet. [Objective]: We prospectively assessed the association between DII scores and all-cause mortality in two large Spanish cohorts and valuated the consistency of findings across these two cohorts and results published based on other cohorts.[Design]: We assessed 18,566 participants in the “Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra” (SUN) cohort followed-up during 188,891 person-years and 6790 participants in the “PREvencion con DIeta MEDiterránea” (PREDIMED) randomized trial representing 30,233 person-years of follow-up. DII scores were calculated in both cohorts from validated FFQs. Higher DII scores corresponded to more proinflammatory diets. A total of 230 and 302 deaths occurred in SUN and PREDIMED, respectively. In a random-effect meta-analysis we included 12 prospective studies (SUN, PREDIMED and 10 additional studies) that assessed the association between DII scores and all-cause mortality.[Results]: After adjusting for a wide array of potential confounders, the comparison between extreme quartiles of the DII showed a positive and significant association with all-cause mortality in both the SUN (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.85; 95% CI: 1.15, 2.98; P-trend = 0.004) and the PREDIMED cohort (HR = 1.42; 95% CI: 1.00, 2.02; P-trend = 0.009). In the meta-analysis of 12 cohorts, the DII was significantly associated with an increase of 23% in all-cause mortality (95% CI: 16%–32%, for the highest vs lowest category of DII).[Conclusion]: Our results provide strong and consistent support for the hypothesis that a pro-inflammatory diet is associated with increased all-cause mortality. The SUN cohort and PREDIMED trial were registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02669602 and at isrctn.com as ISRCTN35739639, respectively.Supported by the official funding agency for biomedical research of the Spanish Government, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), through grants provided to research networks specifically developed for the trial (RTIC G03/140, to R.E.; RTIC RD 06/0045, to Miguel A. Martínez-González) and through Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), and by grants from Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC 06/2007), Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria–Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (Proyecto de Investigación (PI) 04-2239, PI 05/2584, CP06/00100, PI07/0240, PI07/1138, PI07/0954, PI 07/0473, PI10/01407, PI10/02658, PI11/01647, P11/02505, PI13/00462, PI13/00615, PI13/01090, PI14/01668, PI14/01798, PI14/01764), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Recursos y teconologia agroalimentarias(AGL)-2009-13906-C02 and AGL2010-22319-C03 and AGL2013-49083-C3-1- R), Fundación Mapfre 2010, the Consejería de Salud de la Junta de Andalucía (PI0105/2007), the Public Health Division of the Department of Health of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Generalitat Valenciana (Generalitat Valenciana Ayuda Complementaria (GVACOMP) 06109, GVACOMP2010-181, GVACOMP2011-151), Conselleria de Sanitat y, PI14/01764 AP; Atención Primaria (CS) 2010-AP-111, and CS2011-AP-042), and Regional Government of Navarra (P27/2011).). Drs. Shivappa and Hébert were supported by grant number R44DK103377 from the United States National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases