Blood pressure trends associated with changes in height and weight from early adolescence to young adulthood. J Clin Epidemiol 1989;42(8):735-41
Date
01/01/1989Pubmed ID
2760664DOI
10.1016/0895-4356(89)90069-3Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0024413790 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 32 CitationsAbstract
In children, blood pressure is more closely related to height and indices of maturation than to age. This study extends observations on the relationship between height, weight, maturation and blood pressure during early adolescence into young adulthood. Standardized measurements of blood pressure, height, and weight were initially obtained in all 14-15 year old adolescents (N = 304) in a rural Kentucky school system. Measurements were repeated 5 and 8 years later. Adolescents with relatively high blood pressures continued to have higher blood pressures as young adults. Increases in systolic and diastolic blood pressure over time were related to increases of relative weight in both sexes (p less than 0.0001 and p less than 0.005, respectively), and in males increases of systolic blood pressure were related to increases of height (p less than 0.005). However, males who attained their full height at younger ages had higher blood pressures both during adolescence and subsequently, as young adults. Thus blood pressure of young adults is related to blood pressure in adolescence, relative weight and change in relative weight since adolescence, and in males to age of maturation as determined by the age at which adult height is attained.
Author List
Kotchen JM, McKean HE, Neill M, Kotchen TAMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AdolescentAdult
Blood Pressure
Body Height
Body Weight
Female
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Sex Factors
Sexual Maturation
