[Monitoring arterial pressure for 15 minutes of 201 healthy neonatal subjects with a family history of arterial hypertension].

Two groups of healthy children, born on time, have been studied: 96 affected by familiarity with arterial hypertension and 105 not affected. Each baby has been recorded sex, weight, height, and the type of delivery. During their first three days of life the babies have been subjected to monitoring of the arterial pressure through an automatic oscillometric Air Shields apparatus with a 3.5 cm height bangle. We have recorded the systolic pressure, the medium, the diastolic and the heart frequency for 15 minutes in succession with 1 minute intervals, during daily hours. The babies of the two groups have shown in percentage a superimposable average weight, height, sex and the type of delivery. Even the arterial pressure, either systolic or diastolic, and the heart frequency have not shown significant differences. On the contrary the cases of hypertension (systolic pressure higher than 90 mmHg) within the two groups have shown significant statistic differences with a larger number of picks of hypertension among babies with familiarity, to indicate a greater unsteadiness of the pressure among them. Also the number of the scanned subjects affected by hypertension is significantly and statistically greater among babies with relatives who have been affected by hypertension. In conclusion the familiarity with arterial hypertension "affects" already at the neonatal age.