Eight-year follow-up results: age-specific blood pressure changes in 12- to 13-year-old children in Moscow.
An 8-year follow-up study of a representative sample of children with elevated and normal blood pressures (BPs) was conducted within the framework of cooperation under the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. This study demonstrated the tracking phenomenon for systolic blood pressure for both boys and girls but no such phenomenon for diastolic blood pressure. Tracking was also observed for body mass. Using criteria for elevated BP developed under the cooperative study, we observed that the prevalence of elevated BP was higher for boys than girls. By ages 18 to 20 years, 16.7% of the boys had BP greater than or equal to 140 mm Hg/90 mm Hg, but only 0.8% of the girls had reached this level. There were no statistically significant relationships between BP level, smoking, and physical activity. Increases in the prevalence of smoking and declines in the level of physical activity were observed with an increase in age.
Alexandrov
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Institute of Preventive Cardiology, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow.
Antonova
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L
Shamarin
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V
Petrosyan
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K
Borodulina
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I
Rzaev
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Y
Kulikov
S
S
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001823:Body Composition; D002648:Child; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009031:Moscow; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology