Table 4.
Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure Categories of Sixth-Grade Students (N = 199) by Race/Ethnicity and Sex in Two Inner-City Middle Schools, Los Angeles, California, 1999–2000 School Year
| Race/Ethnicity | Sex | Systolic Blood Pressurea | Total | |||
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| No. Desirable BP(%) | No. Prehypertensive(%) | No. Hypertensive(%) | No. Severely Hypertensive(%) | |||
| African American | Female | 30 (79.0) | 4 (10.5) | 2 (5.3) | 2 (5.3) | 38 |
| Male | 24 (82.8) | 3 (10.3) | 1 (3.4) | 1 (3.4) | 29 | |
| Latino | Female | 44 (68.8) | 8 (12.5) | 9 (14.1) | 3 (4.7) | 64 |
| Male | 27 (69.2) | 4 (10.3) | 4 (10.3) | 4 (10.3) | 39 | |
| Total | 125 (73.5) | 19 (11.2) | 16 (9.4) | 10 (5.9) | 170b (100) | |
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| Race/Ethnicity | Sex | Diastolic Blood Pressurea | Total | |||
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| No. Desirable BP(%) | No. Prehypertensive(%) | No. Hypertensive(%) | No. Severely Hypertensive(%) | |||
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| African American | Female | 26 (68.4) | 3 (7.9) | 3 (7.9) | 6 (15.8) | 38 |
| Male | 21 (72.4) | 6 (20.7) | 2 (6.9) | 0 | 29 | |
| Latino | Female | 55 (85.9) | 3 (4.7) | 2 (3.1) | 4 (6.2) | 64 |
| Male | 29 (74.4) | 7 (18.0) | 1 (2.6) | 2 (5.1) | 39 | |
| Total | 131 (77.1) | 19 (11.2) | 8 (4.7) | 12 (7.1) | 170b (100) | |
a
Desirable blood pressure was <90th percentile for height; prehypertensive was ≥90th percentile but <95th percentile for height; hypertensive was ≥95th percentile but <99th percentile for height; severely hypertensive was ≥99th percentile for height (22).
b
N does not total 199 because of missing data on weight, height, or race/ethnicity.