Associations Between Phenotypes of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity and Incident Hypertension in Young Adulthood
Ruth St Fleur,
Marian Tanofsky-Kraff,
Jack Yanovski
et al.
Abstract:Objectives
We investigated whether empirically derived childhood obesity phenotypes were differentially associated with risk of hypertension in young adulthood, and whether these associations differed by sex.
Methods
Data came from 11,404 participants in the Growing Up Today Study, a prospective cohort study in the US established in 1996. We used a childhood obesity phenotype variable that was previously empirically derived using latent class analysis. The childhood obesity phenotypes included an early puber… Show more
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