Predictors of future ambulatory blood pressure in youth

Effect of socioeconomic status on the blood pressure in children living in a developing country

“…In the present study, the BMI and BMI% of children in the WD and MD groups were similar, but those of the UD group children were significantly lower. In accordance with previous data, 3,4,12 both SBP and DBP were positively correlated with BMI in each group and in all the subjects cumulatively.…”

“… 11 Adiposity is a well‐recognized independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease and, together with other anthropometric variables, correlates significantly with resting blood pressure. 12 However, BMI calculated as kg/m 2 does not take into account the age of the child in itself. We calculated BMI% for each child for two purposes: first, to standardize BMI of the children for their age; and second, to be able to easily construct subgroups with similar BMI.…”

Temporal stability of twenty-four-hour ambulatory hemodynamic bioimpedance measures in African American adolescents

“…Although the BP monitor was programmed according the participant's self-reported bedtime, future studies would benefit from measures of gross body activity as measured by a built-in actigraph in determination of actual bedtimes. Diaries were not kept in this study because it was determined that manual-based diary entry interferes with normal daily behavior and significant non-adherence has been observed in previous studies in youth [30][31][32]. Future studies should consider using momentary event sampling with Palm Pilot or other userfriendly personal digital assistant methodology to enable postural changes, physical activity and affective states to be controlled in the data analyses, which would help explain some of the variability in reproducibility of AI measures.…”

Cardiovascular effects in adolescents while they are playing video games: A potential health risk factor?

“…Frank Treiber and his colleagues at the Medical College of Georgia as well as other researchers examined cardiovascular reactivity and the development of hypertension in children, suggesting that reactivity to laboratory stressors may be a long‐term marker in the evolution of hypertension and other cardiac problems (del Rosario, Treiber, Harshfield, Davis, & Strong, 1998; Markovitz, Raczynski, Wallace, Chettur, & Chesney, 1998; Wood, Sheps, Elveback, & Schirger, 1984). However some researchers have primarily focused on the long‐term predictive value of different short‐time laboratory stressors and subsequently provided little or no concrete data on acute heart rate (HR) or blood pressure (BP) changes due to varying research aims and purposes (del Rosario et al, 1998; Kapuku et al, 1999; Turner et al, 1997). Studies on the expenditure of energy while people play video games and its comparison with physical exercise are scarce.…”