Adult Hypertension Is Associated With Blood Pressure Variability in Childhood in Blacks and Whites: The Bogalusa Heart Study | Zendy

Wei Chen | Zendy; S R Srinivasan | Zendy; Lifang Ruan | Zendy; Hao Mei | Zendy; Berenson Gs | Zendy

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Adult Hypertension Is Associated With Blood Pressure Variability in Childhood in Blacks and Whites: The Bogalusa Heart Study

Author(s) -

Wei Chen,

S R Srinivasan,

Lifang Ruan,

Hao Mei,

Berenson Gs

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

american journal of hypertension

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009

H-Index - 136

eISSN - 1941-7225

pISSN - 0895-7061

DOI - 10.1038/ajh.2010.176

Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , body mass index , logistic regression , cohort , diastole , confidence interval , odds ratio , el niño , cohort study , heart rate , pediatrics , endocrinology , demography , cardiology , sociology

Blood pressure (BP) is a variable physiological parameter in health and disease. Increased BP variability over time in adults is associated with severity of end-organ damage and a higher rate of cardiovascular events, even after adjusting for the mean levels. This study tested the hypothesis that childhood BP variability, besides the mean levels, is also predictive of adulthood hypertension.

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