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Title: Estimating pediatric hypertension prevalence in Portugal Authors:  Maria Filomena Teodoro - IST-ID - Associacao do Instituto Superior Tecnico para a Investigacao e Desenvolvimento (Portugal) [presenting]
Abstract: Pediatric hypertension may silently appear in childhood and its diagnostic is based on regular blood pressure registers, that usually can depend on age, gender and weight. This disease can evolve and usually is associated with severe organ-damage, being important to be aware about its existence to conduce an early intervention. To evaluate the prevalence of the disease in Portugal, it was applied a questionnaire to a representative sample of portuguese population. The data collection took a long period of time to be concluded and resulted from the commitment of numerous professionals involved in health, namely doctors, nurses, trainees, etc. The data was statistically analyzed and modeled, in order to infer about the existence of possible associations between socio-demographic variables (age, gender, race, residence, rea, caregivers graduation level and occupation) and the disease occurrence. Some statistically significant associations between socio-demographic variables and high blood pressure occurrence were achieved. We have applied generalized linear models and other multivariate, adequate methods to model and analyze the kind of data under study.