Open AccessResting Energy Expenditure and Systolic Blood Pressure Relationships in Women Across 4.5 Years
Author(s) -
Sriram Neeraj,
Hunter Gary R.,
Fisher Gordon,
Brock David W.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of clinical hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1751-7176
pISSN - 1524-6175
DOI - 10.1111/jch.12256
Subject(s) - medicine , resting energy expenditure , anthropometry , blood pressure , overweight , cardiology , body mass index , heart rate , basal metabolic rate , endocrinology , resting heart rate , energy expenditure , physiology
Recent studies have reported a strong association between blood pressure ( BP ) and resting energy expenditure ( REE ). However, it is not known whether this relationship persists over time. Therefore, the authors examined the temporal relationship between REE and systolic BP . In addition, the impact of sympathetic tone and anthropometric variables on this relationship was examined. All testing was performed on healthy, overweight African American and European American women aged 25 to 45 years over 4.5 years in the University of Alabama at Birmingham General Clinical Research Center. Repeated‐measures mixed‐models revealed REE as a significant determinant of systolic BP (β=0.0155, P <.0001), independent of catecholamines, leg fat, visceral fat, fat‐free mass, fat mass, height, relative skeletal muscle index , and resting heart rate. Observations that REE is predictive of systolic BP across 4.5 years support previous findings that REE may potentially mediate resting BP , independent of anthropometric variables and a marker for sympathetic tone.