2011
DOI: 10.1586/erc.11.63
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The role of obesity, salt and exercise on blood pressure in children and adolescents

Abstract: The increasing trends of blood pressure (BP) in children and adolescents pose great concern for the burden of hypertension-related cardiovascular disease. Although primary hypertension in childhood is commonly associated with obesity, it seems that other factors, such as dietary sodium and exercise, also influence BP levels in children and adolescents. Several studies support that sympathetic nervous system imbalance, impairment of the physiological mechanism of pressure natriuresis, hyperinsulinemia and early… Show more

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“…These results emphasize the importance of the reduction of the body mass in the decrease in blood pressure, which reinforces the importance of the dietary intervention in the treatment of the obese adolescent (41)(42)(43) . Based on the summary our findings, we identified a great variability in the training protocols used, which may also have contributed to the controversial findings.…”
Section: Finalsupporting
confidence: 72%
“…These results emphasize the importance of the reduction of the body mass in the decrease in blood pressure, which reinforces the importance of the dietary intervention in the treatment of the obese adolescent (41)(42)(43) . Based on the summary our findings, we identified a great variability in the training protocols used, which may also have contributed to the controversial findings.…”
Section: Finalsupporting
confidence: 72%
“…14 Other studies among adults also demonstrated that the association between sodium intake and BP tended to be more pronounced among those classified as overweight or in the presence of metabolic syndrome. [15][16][17]36 The significant synergistic interaction between sodium intake and weight status on risk for pre-HBP/HBP observed in our study may have important clinical and public health implications in that reducing sodium intake or weight reduction among children and adolescents in the United States may lead to a greater than expected reduction in HBP. Although we observed a nonsignificant association between sodium intake and BP or risk for pre-HBP/HBP among normal-weight children, it should not be interpreted as indicating a null effect of high sodium intake on BP.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…12,14,35,36 However, NHANES 2003-2008 did not collect family hypertension data from children or physical activity data from children ,12. In our sensitivity analyses, we assessed the effect of physical activity (inactive, active but at below recommended levels, and active at or above recommended levels) only among adolescents aged 12 to 18 years (Supplemental Tables 4 and 5).…”
Section: Baseline Covariates and Sensitivity Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Endothelial dysfunction, increased arterial stiffness and carotid intima media thickness have been demonstrated in studies in obese children [10,[100][101][102][103][104]. Mesenteric, preperitoneal and subcutaneous fat thickness showed significant association with carotid intima media thickness [105].…”
Section: Target Organ Damage In the Absence Of Hypertensionmentioning
confidence: 99%