TY - JOUR
T1 - Blood pressure and obesity in childhood and adolescence epidemiologic aspects
AU - Labarthe, Darwin R.
AU - Mueller, William H.
AU - Eissa, Mona
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported in part by the Southwest Center for Prevention Research, through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control, and by the Health Data Library of the National Center for Health Statistics, at the School of Public Health.
PY - 1991/5
Y1 - 1991/5
N2 - Blood pressure and body mass index (BMI) are first considered independently, and then jointly, on the basis of both cross-sectional and longitudinal epidemiologic studies. The relations between these two attributes are investigated further by analysis of the "velocity curves" of age increments, from ages 6 to 24, in both blood pressure (systolic and fifth-phase diastolic) and BMI, from data from the US Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1971-1974. The results of both reported studies and the present exploratory analysis indicate sometimes strong but quite variable relations between blood pressure and BMI, which differ by age, gender, and the particular blood pressure measure under consideration.
AB - Blood pressure and body mass index (BMI) are first considered independently, and then jointly, on the basis of both cross-sectional and longitudinal epidemiologic studies. The relations between these two attributes are investigated further by analysis of the "velocity curves" of age increments, from ages 6 to 24, in both blood pressure (systolic and fifth-phase diastolic) and BMI, from data from the US Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1971-1974. The results of both reported studies and the present exploratory analysis indicate sometimes strong but quite variable relations between blood pressure and BMI, which differ by age, gender, and the particular blood pressure measure under consideration.
KW - Blood pressure
KW - body mass index (BMI)
KW - childhood
KW - crosssectional studies
KW - epidemiology
KW - longitudinal studies
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U2 - 10.1016/1047-2797(91)90044-D
DO - 10.1016/1047-2797(91)90044-D
M3 - Article
C2 - 1669515
AN - SCOPUS:0025917051
VL - 1
SP - 337
EP - 345
JO - Annals of Epidemiology
JF - Annals of Epidemiology
SN - 1047-2797
IS - 4
ER -
