| Sumario: | Part of a special supplement on the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Workshop on Hypertension in Selected U.S. Minority Populations. Blood pressure in Hispanic children was investigated. The systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and prevalence of high blood pressure were measured for Mexican American, Cuban American, and Puerto Rican children living in the continental U.S. who took part in the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Puerto Rican children exhibited significantly lower DBP than Mexican American and Cuban American children and lower SBP than Cuban American children, although the existence of a significant observer effect means that the findings should be cautiously interpreted. Significant predictors of both SBP and DBP were age, body mass index, and pulse rate, whereas sex was a significant predictor of SBP but not of DBP. Blood pressure was not significantly predicted by socioeconomic and cultural factors.
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