Open AccessIncidence and correlates of high blood pressure from childhood to adulthood: the Birth to Twenty study
Author(s) -
Romain Meer,
Daniel Boateng,
Kerstin KlipsteinGrobusch,
Shane A. Norris,
Juliana Kagura
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.249
H-Index - 172
eISSN - 1473-5598
pISSN - 0263-6352
DOI - 10.1097/hjh.0000000000003004
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , incidence (geometry) , blood pressure , demography , cohort study , cohort , percentile , birth weight , pediatrics , relative risk , confidence interval , pregnancy , surgery , physics , sociology , optics , statistics , mathematics , biology , genetics
There is growing evidence from high-income countries suggesting that hypertension developed in childhood and adolescence persists into adulthood. The objective of this study was to investigate the incidence and risk factors of high blood pressure (BP) in urban black children.