Sexual differences in relationships between birth weight or current body weight and blood pressure or cholesterol in young Japanese students.
Open Access
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- Published by Japanese Society of Hypertension in Hypertension Research
- Vol. 22 (3) , 169-172
- https://doi.org/10.1291/hypres.22.169
Abstract
This study was designed to examine the relationships between birth weight or current body weight and blood pressure (BP) or cholesterol in 178 Japanese high school students (98 male, 80 female, age 15-16 yr). All subjects were born after a full-term pregnancy (gestational age ≥38wk) with a birth weight ≥2, 500g; these data were obtained from routine obstetrical records. At a health check-up, nurses used an automatic device to perform two consecutive BP measurements with each subject in a sitting position after resting for at least 5min. Serum total and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels were measured. Birth weight was not related to BP, but was inversely related to serum total cholesterol in both males (r=-0.241, pr=-0.351, pr=0.369, pr=0.216, pr=-0.224, pHypertens Res 1999; 22: 169-172)Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: