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Blood pressure norms for healthy young adults: Relation to sex, age, and reported parental hypertension
Author(s) -
Hahn William K.,
Brooks Jo A.,
Hite Richard
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/nur.4770120108
Subject(s) - blood pressure , medicine , young adult , demography , psychology , gerontology , sociology
Blood pressure norms are presented for 1522 white, healthy, nonsmoking, normotensive 18 to 22‐year‐old men and women as a function of age and parental hypertension. Age effects were observed for diastolic blood pressure among males only. Parental hypertension was related to higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure among young women, and women with two hypertensive parents had higher systolic blood pressure than women with one hypertensive parent. The use of oral contraceptives is likely to have affected these results. Directions for future research are given.