Abstract
This presentation is to provide a broad epidemiologic perspective on the problem of blood pressure in childhood and adolescence and a background for the presentations which follow, addressing the aspects of tracking, risk factors, and electrolytes. Two fundamental issues are addressed here: first, the different patterns of blood pressure by age, as observed in population surveys in the USA, Japan, and elsewhere around the world; and second, the relation of blood pressure to indices of growth and development at different ages during childhood and adolescence. The pattern of blood pressure by age in the young is often more complex than the simple linear pattern ascribed to adult populations. The relations of blood pressure to body measurements are strong but vary importantly with age. The implications of these observations for the design of future epidemiologic studies are discussed.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 495-513 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Clinical and Experimental Hypertension |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 4-5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1986 |
Funding
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The contributions especially of Dr. D. L. Morris and Ms. B. Freyer; Dr. T. Nishioi and Dr. P. Singh to the analyses of data from the HANES survey; the Japan Review Project; and the Blood Pressure Review Project, respectively, are gratefully acknowledged. This work was supported in part by grants HL-17269 from the US National Institutes of Health and from the Mitchell Foundation.
Keywords
- ADOLESCENCE
- AGE
- BLOOD PRESSURE
- CHILDHOOD
- GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
- Hypertension
- POPULATION SURVEYS
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Internal Medicine
- Physiology