Body Height and Body Mass as Determinants of Basal Blood Pressure in Children—the Bogalusa Heart Study

Voors, Antonie W.; Webber, Larry S.; Frerichs, Ralph R.; Berenson, Gerald S.

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“…In girls, a relationship between BMI and blood pressure level was found only when SBP and DBP were analysed as continuous variables. A strong positive relationship between blood pressure and height, weight, and various indices for body mass was found in many studies 6,9,16,17 including studies demonstrating that weight loss lowers blood pressure in obese adolescents. 18,19 BMI was also a significant independent variable in the regression model for systolic and diastolic blood pressure in a cohort study of blood pressure in adolescent girls in USA.…”

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Blood pressure levels in 7 to 14-year-old Belgrade children

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The objective of the work was to study blood pressure and some anthropometric characteristics in children. The study design included the prevalence study at Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. The study comprised 1651 subjects (809 boys and 842 girls) aged 7-14 years, that is, 2.6% of all relevant population. The average levels of systolic and diastolic blood pressures (SBP and DBP) were 113.4/70.3 mmHg in boys and 114.6/ 71.1 mmHg in girls. High SBP was present in 4.7% of boys and in 5.3% of girls. High DBP was found in 5.6% of boys and in 4.8% of girls. According to multivariate regression analysis, in boys SBP and DBP were significantly associated with age, body mass index (BMI) and subscapular skinfold, SBP was also associated with body weight, and DBP with triceps skinfold. In girls, SBP was significantly related to BMI, suprailiac skinfold and body height, and DBP was significantly associated with BMI, suprailiac and subscapular skinfolds. The results of the present study support the opinion that BMI is a significant predictor of blood pressure in children and point out to suprailiac skinfold in girls as a possible predictor of blood pressure.

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“…El único informe de un coeficiente de regresión negativo fue el Voors y col. 35 . Estos autores no concuerdan, con otros análisis de regresión llevados a cabo con la misma población 2,36 y señalan que la contribución del pliegue cutá-neo a la regresión múltiple de PA, aunque altamente significativa en algunos casos, fue menor que el peso o el índice de Quetelet.…”

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“…Esto es más evidente cuando se consideran las dos poblaciones en que se basa la mayoria de los informes de la Tabla 4: las de Bogalusa y Cincinnati. En el estudio de Bogalusa, Voors y col. 35 consideraron únicamente 4 variables, obteniendose pendientes desusadamente altas. En análisis posteriores de esta población se incorporaron 15 y 6 variables, resultando coeficientes menores.…”

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Evaluación metodológica de la relación entre presión arterial sanguinea y pliegue cutáneo: un enfoque epidemiológico

Rosenthal

1989

Rev. Saúde Pública

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ROSENTHAL, J. Evaluación metodológica de la relación entre presión arterial sanguínea y pliegue cutá-neo: un enfoque epidemiológico. Rev. Saúde públ., S. Paulo, 23:322-35, 1989. RESUMEN:Se presentan las conclusiones de la revisión de varios trabajos que estudian la relación entre ciertas características antropométricas (pliegue del tríceps, adiposidad y circunferencia del brazo) y la presión arterial sanguinea. Después de analizar críticamente la calidad de diversos estudios basándonos en el diseño del estudio, la calidad de las mediciones y el tipo de análisis estadísticos, se encontró que en los trabajos elegidos la asociación entre el pliegue cutáneo del tríceps y la presión arterial se relaciona con tres características demográficas. Sin embargo, la pregunta sobre la independencia de esta asociación aún permanece sin respuesta. Se discute el efecto del panículo adiposo del brazo sobre la medición de la presión arterial. Se hacen una serie de recommendaciones para la medición estandarizada de la presión arterial con el fin de uniformizar el procedimiento de medida clínica y de investigación epidemiológica en esta área. En los estudios epidemiológicos de presión arterial usualmente se requiere la participación de un gran número de sujetos. La colaboración de la comunidad en este tipo de investigaciones se logra más fácilmente si se evitan técnicas de medición agresivas o que consuman una gran cantidad de tiempo. DESCRIPTORES:Entre los aspectos que limitan la participación y que a la vez inciden en la precisión de la determinación de la presión arterial sanguinea (PA) hay que destacar los siguientes: 1. Existen oportunidades limitadas de repetir las mediciones de presión arterial, y 2. Es necessário utilizar procedimientos indirectos de medición que introducen errores y pueden llevar a establecer relaciones falsas o de poca solidez cientifica.El presente meta-análisis estudia la relación entre la variación de la presión arterial y el pliegue cutáneo del tríceps (PCT). Este método es un proceso sistematizado y organizado que permite la combinación de resultados de diferentes estudios que se hacen la misma pregunta con el fin de sintetizar coherentemente el problema en question. En el presente estudio el pliegue cutáneo del tríceps se utiliza como medida indirecta de la adiposidad en poblaciones de niños y adultos. Esta adiposidad presenta ciertos problemas cuando se quiere evaluar indirectamente la presión arterial, ya que la presencia de tejido grasoso afecta la medición de la presión arterial sanguinea. Recientemente se ha incorporado la medición del pliegue cutáneo en estudios de la presión arterial, de tal manera que se tratará de evaluar los efectos que tiene el tejido grasoso sobre las cifras tensionales. La mayoria de los estudios sobre errores de medición debidos al tamaño del brazo se han llevado a cabo en población adulta. METODOLOGÍASe hizo una exahustiva revisión de la literatura abarcando los artículos publicados entre 1941 y 1983. Los criterios utilizados para incluir los diferentes articulos en el...

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“…With reference to obesity, previous communitywide studies of childhood BP have emphasized the BP relationship with weight 6 or weight-for-height indices, such as relative weight, 7 the ponderosity index (weight/height 3 ), 8 or body mass index (weight/ height 2 ). 9 ' l0 Analyses involving the triceps skinfold have yielded no strong effect on BP, 8 ' l0 but in the large collaborative study from the socialist countries brachial and subscapular skinfold thicknesses taken together were significantly associated with systolic and diastolic BPs.…”

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“…9 ' l0 Analyses involving the triceps skinfold have yielded no strong effect on BP, 8 ' l0 but in the large collaborative study from the socialist countries brachial and subscapular skinfold thicknesses taken together were significantly associated with systolic and diastolic BPs. 9 Cross-sectional data on adolescents (ages 12-17 years) in the U.S. Health Examination Survey HI have been interpreted to show that body mass index was equivalent to subscapular skinfold thickness in the prediction of systolic and diastolic BPs."…”

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Vertex-corrected blood pressure in black girls. Relation to obesity, glucose, and cations.

Kahn¹,

Bain²

1987

Hypertension

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SUMMARY Correlates of resting blood pressure (BP) were explored among 32 inner-city, black girls, ages 11.7 to 13.9 years, a sample drawn from the second and fourth quartiles of the BP distribution in an earlier school survey. Customary BP measurements in the seated position were corrected for the height of the arterial column extending from the BP cuff to the top (vertex) of each girl's head. This vertex correction procedure has previously been shown to eliminate the childhood association between mean arterial pressure and age. Vertex-corrected systolic BP was correlated individually (p<0.03) with serum fasting glucose, ionized calcium, sodium, and calculated osmolality. The BP association with serum glucose did not persist after an oral sucrose challenge. Vertexcorrected diastolic BP was correlated individually (jo<0.02) with serum ionized calcium and four indices of obesity, the best correlated of which was the subscapular skinfold (r = 0.66, p = 0.0001). Vertex-corrected BPs generally provided stronger correlations than customary (uncorrected) BPs with the variables of interest. Correlations with seated BPs were generally stronger than those with supine BPs. By multiple regression analysis, seated vertex-corrected systolic BP was related directly to serum fasting glucose and ionized calcium and inversely to pulse rate (Jt 2 = 0.53). Seated vertexcorrected diastolic BP was related directly to subscapular skinfold and calculated osmolality (R 2 = 0.54). Vertex correction may facilitate clinical or epidemiological studies of early hypertension. O UR interest in the childhood origins of primary hypertension led us to a cross-sectional, clinical study of 32 black girls ranging in age from 11.7 to 13.9 years. We systematically chose our sample from participants in a previous blood pressure (BP) survey of black schoolchildren in Atlanta, excluding subjects from the lowest quartile of their community's BP distribution. The resulting study population was considered likely to yield a substantial number of hypertensive adults in subsequent years.In this clinical study we explored correlations between the girls' average resting BPs and various measures of their obesity, glucose metabolism, and catFrom the Departments of Community Health (H.S. Kahn) and Biometry (R.P. Bain), Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.Supported by grants from the Georgia Affiliate of the American Heart Association, the Emory University Research Fund, and the Clinical Research Center Program of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health Service (Grant 2-M01-RR00O39).Address for reprints: H.S. Kahn, M.D., 735 Gatewood Road, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322.Received May 6, 1986; accepted October 28, 1986. ions. We also probed the utility within this age range of correcting customary systolic and diastolic BP measurements for the height of the arterial column extending from the BP cuff to the top (vertex) of each subject's head. In the large school-based survey from which these girls were drawn (...

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Body Height and Body Mass as Determinants of Basal Blood Pressure in Children—the Bogalusa Heart Study

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Blood pressure levels in 7 to 14-year-old Belgrade children

Blood pressure levels in 7 to 14-year-old Belgrade children

Evaluación metodológica de la relación entre presión arterial sanguinea y pliegue cutáneo: un enfoque epidemiológico

Vertex-corrected blood pressure in black girls. Relation to obesity, glucose, and cations.

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