Body mass index percentiles and elevated blood pressure among children and adolescents

Autor: Tadeusz Nawarycz, Young Mi Hong, Shashi Chiplonkar, Xia Liu, Vaman Khadilkar, Roya Kelishadi, Lidia Ostrowska-Nawarycz, Ramin Heshmat, Neha Kajale, Mingming Wang, Pierre Traissac, Habiba Ben Romdhane, Hajer Aounallah-Skhiri, Mostafa Qorbani, Barbara Stawińska-Witoszyńska, Bo Xi, Jalila El Ati, Min Zhao, Yajun Liang, Alicja Krzyżaniak, Anuradha Khadilkar, Veena Ekbote, Małgorzata Krzywińska-Wiewiorowska, Mohammad Esmaeil Motlagh, Gelayol Ardalan, Liu Yang, Hae Soon Kim
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Journal of Human Hypertension. 34:319-325
ISSN: 1476-5527
0950-9240
DOI: 10.1038/s41371-019-0215-x
Popis: It is well established that obesity is associated with an increased risk of elevated and high blood pressure (BP) in children and adolescents. However, it is uncertain whether there is an increase in the risk of elevated and high BP associated with an increase of body mass index (BMI) among children and adolescents whose BMI is in the accepted normal range. Data were available for 58 899 children and adolescents aged 6–17 years from seven national cross-sectional surveys in China, India, Iran, Korea, Poland, Tunisia, and the United States. The subjects were divided into eight percentile subgroups according to their BMI levels based on the World Health Organization recommendations. Elevated BP and high BP were defined using the 2016 international child BP criteria. Compared with the reference subgroup of the 5th–24th percentiles, the odds ratios (ORs) for high BP were 1.27 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.14–1.41; P
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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