Blood-pressures in offspring of hypertensive parents.
The blood-pressures in a material of 59 children aged 6-17 years and 49 adults aged 18-37 years, all of whom had one parent with essential hypertension were compared with control materials. Despite the facts that all of these had one parent with essential hypertension and 2/3 had, in addition, at least one grandparent with essential hypertension, the blood-pressures in the age-group 6-17 years did not differ from the control population. This held true also for the pulse, obesity index, weight and HDL/total cholesterol. In the age-group 18-37 years, 22% had diastolic blood-pressures of over the 95% control percentile. In the group of men as a whole, the diastolic blood-pressure (phase 4) was significantly higher (p less than 0.01) than in the control population while no difference in the systolic blood-pressure was found. It is concluded that it does not appear to be necessary to control the blood-pressure in children under the age of 18 years with one hypertensive parent more frequently than in other children, while there may be good reasons for controlling the blood-pressure in young adults over 18 years if one of the parents has hypertension.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood; D008076:Cholesterol, HDL / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000235:genetics* / Q000517:prevention & control; D008297:Male; D011674:Pulse; D012306:Risk
D008076:Cholesterol, HDL; D002784:Cholesterol