[Relationship between blood pressure and weight characteristics in childhood and adolescence. II.--Blood pressure, fatness, lean body mass and non lean body mass (author's transl)].
The relationship between adiposity and blood pressure has been studied among 17,067 healthy children aged 4 to 18 years old. The correlation of blood pressure with fatness, expressed as non lean body mass, is smaller than the correlation with lean body mass, especially in boys. Blood pressure association with lean body mass strongly increases during puberty growth in boys. These data suggest that during adolescence blood pressure association with weight is mainly due to growth and physical-maturation and that fatness has less influence. A careful analysis of somatic features of adolescents with high blood pressure seems necessary before advocating and improved system of weight control. Preference of blood pressure reference to height is again strengthened.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000503:physiopathology*
Relations entre la pression artérielle et les caractéristiques pondérales de l'enfant et de l'adolescent. II.--Pression artérielle, adiposité, masse maigre et masse grasse.