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Blood‐pressures in Offspring of Hypertensive Parents
Author(s) -
IBSEN K. KAAS
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1984.tb17785.x
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , percentile , prehypertension , population , obesity , offspring , pulse pressure , diastole , essential hypertension , grandparent , overweight , pediatrics , cardiology , pregnancy , environmental health , developmental psychology , psychology , statistics , mathematics , biology , genetics
. The blood‐pressures in a material of 59 children aged 6–17 years and 49 adults aged 18–37 years, all of whom had one parent with essential hypertension were compared with control materials. Despite the facts that all of these had one parent with essential hypertension and 2/3 had, in addition, at least one grandparent with essential hypertension, the blood‐pressures in the age‐group 6–17 years did not differ from the control population. This held true also for the pulse, obesity index, weight and HDL/total cholesterol. In the age‐group 18–37 years, 22 % had diastolic blood‐pressures of over the 95 % control percentile. In the group of men as a whole, the diastolic blood‐pressure (phase 4) was significantly higher ( p <0.01) than in the control population while no difference in the systolic blood‐pressure was found. It is concluded that it does not appear to be necessary to control the blood‐pressure in children under the age of 18 years with one hypertensive parent more frequently than in other children, while there may be good reasons for controlling the blood‐pressure in young adults over 18 years if one of the parents has hypertension.