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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-12-1
pubmed:abstractText
The link between blood pressure measured at juvenile ages (3-18 years) and subsequent adult ages (30 and 50 years) was investigated in a community-based longitudinal study conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1928 to the present. The original sample of 550 persons decreased 61 percent by age 50 years, leaving only 211 persons in the cohort. Blood pressure was measured annually up to age 18 years and each decade thereafter, providing a unique opportunity to link childhood and adult blood pressures over periods of up to 50 years. Juvenile blood pressure measured from age 6 years onward was a positive predictor of blood pressure at age 30 years. Blood pressure measured at age 50 years was predicted best by juvenile pressures measured at early school age and early puberty. The juvenile-adult blood pressure association was partly explained by controlling for smoking and parental history of cardiovascular disease, but was not explained by controlling for juvenile height or body mass. It was stronger in children from blue collar families. The reported correlations probably represent an underestimation of the true strength of the association because of a greater loss to follow-up among subjects with higher blood pressure and the effects of antihypertensive medication in adulthood.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0002-9262
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
136
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
633-45
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Longitudinal prediction of adult blood pressure from juvenile blood pressure levels.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biomedical and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.