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The relationship between the intrauterine environment and blood pressure in 3‐year‐old Japanese children
Author(s) -
Hashimoto N,
Kawasaki T,
Kikuchi T,
Takahashi H,
Uchiyama M
Publication year - 1996
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.1651-2227.1996.tb13978.x
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , birth weight , pregnancy , body weight , pediatrics , body height , obstetrics , cardiology , genetics , biology
In 195 Japanese children the systolic pressure at 3 years of age was inversely correlated to the body weight at birth and positively correlated to the mothers' systolic pressure during pregnancy: the average systolic pressure in children whose body weight at birth exceeded 3510 g was 3.0 mmHg, which was lower than that of children whose body weight at birth was 2990 g or less. There was an increase of 0.12 mmHg in the children's systolic pressure with each increment of 1 mmHg in the systolic pressure of their mothers. The systolic pressure at 3 years in children of mothers who had had pretibial oedema during pregnancy (101.0 ± 8.8 mmHg) was significantly higher compared with children whose mothers did not have oedema (96.6 ± 9.6 mmHg).