Diagnostic aspects

n (69)

% (100)

Main reasons for admission

Œdema

34

49.3

Breathing difficulty

14

20.3

Convulsions

9

13.0

Nutritional status

Normal

52

75.4

Delayed weight gain

6

8.7

Overweight/obese

11

15.9

Familial hypertension

Yes

4

5.8

No

65

94.2

Main physical signs

Poor general impression

55

79.7

Oedema of the lower limbs

47

68.1

Ascites

22

31.9

Coma

8

11.6

Classification of hypertension

Borderline

8

11.6

Confirmed

22

31.9

Threatening

39

56.5

Bloody

11

4.9

Etiologies of hypertension

Renal

46

66.6

Impure nephrotic syndrome

17

24.6

Acute glomerulonephritis

16

23.2

Chronic renal failure

13

18.8

Cardiovascular

9

13.0

Essential hypertension

14

20.3