[Association between higher blood pressure level in children and adult blood pressure: 17 years follow-up results].
OBJECTIVE
Essential hypertension may begin at childhood. The aim of this study is to identify the risk factors of hypertension and detect the evolvement tracking of blood pressure in childhood.


METHODS
In this study, we followed up blood pressure changes in 4623 school children (6 - 15 years-old) from 1987 to 2005 in Hanzhong rural area. A total of 152 children were grouped to higher blood pressure group [systolic blood pressure (P(SBP)) >or= 75(th) (P(75))] and 140 children grouped to normal blood pressure group [P(SBP) < 50(th) (P(50))] and their blood pressure were re-measure 18-years later.


RESULTS
The total follow-up rate was 70.2%. Follow-up blood pressure was significantly higher in higher blood pressure group at baseline than that in normal blood pressure group at baseline (P < 0.05). The hypertension rate at follow up was significantly higher in higher blood pressure group at baseline than that in normal blood pressure group at baseline (28.0% vs. 4.1%, P < 0.01). The risk for hypertension was 6.88 greater in higher blood pressure group at baseline than that in normal blood pressure group at baseline.


CONCLUSIONS
Higher blood pressure at childhood is a risk of developing hypertension at adulthood.
Mu
Jian-Jun
JJ
Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xian Jiaotong University, Xian 710061, China.
Liu
Zhi-Quan
ZQ
Yang
Jun
J
Ren
Jie
J
Liu
Wei-Min
WM
Xu
Xiang-Lin
XL
Xiong
Su-E
SE
D000293:Adolescent; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D002648:Child; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012307:Risk Factors