24 hour monitoring of blood pressure in premature and full-term new born babies.

Using a 24 hour monitoring of the systo-diastolic blood pressure, 127 new born babies were studied in the first five days of life. 45 of these new born babies were premature (35 +/- 1 week) and 82 full-term. The results showed an overlap in the systo-diastolic blood pressure in the 2 groups of subjects with a rise and fall in pressure in the 24 hour period and no fall in pressure during the night typical to a healthy adult.

[Dietetic counseling of obese school child. Study in an elementary school].

We controlled, after nine months, 29 obese children, who attended the primary school, and to whom it was advised a good balanced base diet of 1200 kcal. One child wasn't obese anymore, and in 13 cases there was a sensible reduction of overweight percentage. We consider these results positively, because our aim was to obtain a gradual resolution of the overweight, trying to avoid some very dangerous relapses for the young's future.

[Obesity and hypercholesterolemia in a primary school in Rome].

The research in particular the incidence of obesity, hypertension and hyperlipemia was evaluated involved 201 primary school children. The results show an obesity percentage equal to 28%; 23% of the young were hypercholesterolic and 21% had hypertriglyceridemia. Nobody was hypertensioned.

Early detection by non-invasive monitoring of abnormally elevated systolic blood pressure in newborns with a positive familiarity for hypertension.

This study investigates 263 full-term clinically healthy newborn babies: subdivided into two groups depending on a positive (113 individuals) or negative (150 subjects) family history for hypertension. The babies were comparable for body weight and statural height and equipartitioned into males and females. The infants underwent a non-invasive, automated monitoring of blood pressure during the first three days of their life, according to protocol in which the systolic and diastolic measurements were performed at 1 min intervals over 15 minutes.

Follow-up of obese child.

A long-term follow-up which is still being carried out was started in the school-year 1985-86 in a Primary School of Rome and we suggested a written diet of 1300 calories and correct physical exercises. During this long follow-up we studied the changes in percentage of obesity of these subjects, considering their familiarity with obesity. It resulted that after a starting benefit due to the diet and the sport activity, which lasted till 1989, the youngsters with familiarity have subsequently regained the initial situation in 62.