Anthropometric, lifestyle and metabolic determinants of resting heart rate. A population study.
OBJECTIVE
To clarify the determinants of resting heart rate at the population level in a random sample of the Belgian population.


RESULTS
Data of 5027 men and 4150 women aged 25-74 years obtained from a Belgian nationwide survey were analysed. In multivariate analysis, blood pressure strongly correlated with heart rate in men (t = 12.4 for systolic; t = 8.8 for diastolic) and women (t = 12.0 for systolic; t = 7.7 for diastolic). Age (t = -3.4 in men; t = -8.1 in women) and height (t = -3.7 in men; t = -3.1 in women) correlated negatively with heart rate. Smoking raised heart rate in men (1-19 cigarettes.day-1, t = 6.1; > or = 20 cigarettes.day-1, t = 10.3) and women (> or = 20 cigarettes.day-1, t = 3.5). Serum phosphorus correlated negatively with heart rate (t = -3.5 in men; t = -8.3 in women). Serum log alkaline phosphatase (t = 6.7 in men; t = 7.2 in women) and serum protein (t = 5.3 in men; t = 4.4 in women) correlated positively with heart rate.


CONCLUSIONS
At the population level, blood pressure, cigarette smoking, serum alkaline phosphatase and serum protein correlate independently, significantly and positively with heart rate, and age, height and serum phosphorus negatively.
Zhang
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Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
Kesteloot
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D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000097:blood; D000886:Anthropometry; D001481:Basal Metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D001530:Belgium; D001774:Blood Chemical Analysis; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D001798:Blood Proteins / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012016:Reference Values; D012146:Rest / Q000502:physiology; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012737:Sex Factors
D001798:Blood Proteins; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase