title: The relationship between blood pressure, anthropometric indices and metabolic profile in adolescents: a cross sectional study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the relationship between blood pressure, anthropometric indices and metabolic profile in adolescents.
  
  
  METHODS
  The present cross sectional study was conducted in 1005, 12-y-old junior students referred to 15 urban health centers of Rasht. Samples were recruited randomly and data were collected in a form which consisted of demographic characteristics, history of disease in samples and their immediate families, birth weight, physical examination and clinical examination including height, weight, blood pressure and body mass index. Also, metabolic profiles including fasting blood sugar (FBS), blood sugar (BS), cholesterol, and triglyceride (TG), low density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and insulin levels were measured. Data were analyzed in SPSS software, by descriptive and analytic statistics and p value 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Eight hundred fifty nine adolescents consisting of 550 (64 %) boys and 309 (34 %) girls participated in this study; 11.4 % (84/739 cases) of the participants had hypertension. The strongest correlation was seen between systolic blood pressure and weight, waist or hip circumferences and insulin levels. Also, FBS had very weak correlation with blood pressure.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Thus, weight, waist and hip circumferences, insulin levels, high TG and low HDL have been indicated as the strongest correlating factors for high blood pressure.Thus, these factors should be investigated in high risk children and followed in hypertensive child to monitor cardiometabolic risk factors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Pediatric Growth Disorders Research Center, 17 Shahrivar Hospital, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Guilan, Iran.
authors.forename: Setila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dalili
authors.forename: Hamid
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mohammadi
authors.forename: Seyed Mahmood
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Rezvany
authors.forename: Arsalan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dadashi
authors.forename: Mohammad Hassan
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Novin
authors.forename: Hajar
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gholaminejad
authors.forename: Abdolreza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Medghalchi
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mohtasham Amiri
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dalili
authors.forename: Afagh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hassanzadeh Rad
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000886:Anthropometry; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008055:Lipids / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D008055:Lipids