Prevalência de jovens hipertensos não diagnosticados atendidos na policlínica odontológica da Universidade do Estado do Amazonas of undiagnosed hypertensive young people of dental

Aim: to evaluate the prevalence of non-diagnosed hypertensive young-adults searching for dental treatment at dentistry policlinics of Amazonas State University in function of gender, race, age and anthropometric indexes. Metodology: a survey with non-open questions was applied along with two measurements of arterial pressure toke 10 minutes apart between them in 124 subjects. The patients were weighed and their height was measured to obtain the body-mass index (BMI). The abdominal circumference (AC) was also obtained. Data were analyzed by Fisher’s exact and Student t tests (alpha=5%). Results: the prevalence of hypertensive young-adults, aging 19.3 ± 1.9 years, was 4.8% (n=6), being 8% (n=4) females and 2.5 % (n=2) males. The predominant race was brown (5%, n=4). Overweighed/obese hypertensive subjects were prevalent when compared to normal BMI subjects (p 0.05). Conclusion: the prevalence of hypertensive young-adults was low, being the majority of them brown females, being associated with overweigh or obesity.