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High Blood Pressure in Obese and Nonobese Japanese Children: Blood Pressure Measurement is Necessary Even in Nonobese Japanese Children

BACKGROUND: Although the prevalences of obesity and hypertension (HT) are increasing in children, there have been few epidemiological studies of HT in Japanese children. We evaluated the prevalences of HT and high-normal blood pressure (HNBP), and examined the relationship between blood pressure (BP...

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Autores principales: Shirasawa, Takako, Shimada, Naoki, Ochiai, Hirotaka, Ohtsu, Tadahiro, Hoshino, Hiromi, Nishimura, Rimei, Morimoto, Aya, Tajima, Naoko, Kokaze, Akatsuki
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Publicado: Japan Epidemiological Association 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20699600
http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20090207
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author Shirasawa, Takako
Shimada, Naoki
Ochiai, Hirotaka
Ohtsu, Tadahiro
Hoshino, Hiromi
Nishimura, Rimei
Morimoto, Aya
Tajima, Naoko
Kokaze, Akatsuki
author_facet Shirasawa, Takako
Shimada, Naoki
Ochiai, Hirotaka
Ohtsu, Tadahiro
Hoshino, Hiromi
Nishimura, Rimei
Morimoto, Aya
Tajima, Naoko
Kokaze, Akatsuki
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description BACKGROUND: Although the prevalences of obesity and hypertension (HT) are increasing in children, there have been few epidemiological studies of HT in Japanese children. We evaluated the prevalences of HT and high-normal blood pressure (HNBP), and examined the relationship between blood pressure (BP) and body mass index (BMI), in Japanese children. METHODS: The subjects of this study were 2420 children living in the town of Ina, Saitama Prefecture, Japan during the period from 2006 through 2008. Body height, weight, and BP were measured. HT and HNBP were defined according to the HT criteria for Japanese children. Children with HNBP or HT were defined as having high blood pressure (HBP). RESULTS: The prevalences of HBP were 15.9% and 15.8% in fourth-grade boys and girls, respectively, and 11.1% and 10.8% in seventh-grade boys and girls, respectively. Irrespective of sex or grade level, a higher BMI was associated with a higher prevalence of HBP (P < 0.001). When compared with the <50th percentile BMI category, the crude odds ratios (ORs) were statistically significant for the 75th to 84th percentile category in fourth-grade boys (OR: 4.54, 95% CI: 2.36–8.76), the ≥95th percentile in fourth-grade girls (13.29, 5.93–29.77), the 85th to 94th percentile (3.16, 1.46–6.84) in seventh-grade boys, and the ≥95th percentile (7.96, 3.18–19.93) in seventh-grade girls. CONCLUSIONS: BMI was associated with HBP in Japanese school children. In addition, some children in the lower BMI categories also had HBP.
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spelling pubmed-39008362014-02-04 High Blood Pressure in Obese and Nonobese Japanese Children: Blood Pressure Measurement is Necessary Even in Nonobese Japanese Children Shirasawa, Takako Shimada, Naoki Ochiai, Hirotaka Ohtsu, Tadahiro Hoshino, Hiromi Nishimura, Rimei Morimoto, Aya Tajima, Naoko Kokaze, Akatsuki J Epidemiol Original Article BACKGROUND: Although the prevalences of obesity and hypertension (HT) are increasing in children, there have been few epidemiological studies of HT in Japanese children. We evaluated the prevalences of HT and high-normal blood pressure (HNBP), and examined the relationship between blood pressure (BP) and body mass index (BMI), in Japanese children. METHODS: The subjects of this study were 2420 children living in the town of Ina, Saitama Prefecture, Japan during the period from 2006 through 2008. Body height, weight, and BP were measured. HT and HNBP were defined according to the HT criteria for Japanese children. Children with HNBP or HT were defined as having high blood pressure (HBP). RESULTS: The prevalences of HBP were 15.9% and 15.8% in fourth-grade boys and girls, respectively, and 11.1% and 10.8% in seventh-grade boys and girls, respectively. Irrespective of sex or grade level, a higher BMI was associated with a higher prevalence of HBP (P < 0.001). When compared with the <50th percentile BMI category, the crude odds ratios (ORs) were statistically significant for the 75th to 84th percentile category in fourth-grade boys (OR: 4.54, 95% CI: 2.36–8.76), the ≥95th percentile in fourth-grade girls (13.29, 5.93–29.77), the 85th to 94th percentile (3.16, 1.46–6.84) in seventh-grade boys, and the ≥95th percentile (7.96, 3.18–19.93) in seventh-grade girls. CONCLUSIONS: BMI was associated with HBP in Japanese school children. In addition, some children in the lower BMI categories also had HBP. Japan Epidemiological Association 2010-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3900836/ /pubmed/20699600 http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20090207 Text en © 2010 Japan Epidemiological Association. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Original Article
Shirasawa, Takako
Shimada, Naoki
Ochiai, Hirotaka
Ohtsu, Tadahiro
Hoshino, Hiromi
Nishimura, Rimei
Morimoto, Aya
Tajima, Naoko
Kokaze, Akatsuki
High Blood Pressure in Obese and Nonobese Japanese Children: Blood Pressure Measurement is Necessary Even in Nonobese Japanese Children
title High Blood Pressure in Obese and Nonobese Japanese Children: Blood Pressure Measurement is Necessary Even in Nonobese Japanese Children
title_full High Blood Pressure in Obese and Nonobese Japanese Children: Blood Pressure Measurement is Necessary Even in Nonobese Japanese Children
title_fullStr High Blood Pressure in Obese and Nonobese Japanese Children: Blood Pressure Measurement is Necessary Even in Nonobese Japanese Children
title_full_unstemmed High Blood Pressure in Obese and Nonobese Japanese Children: Blood Pressure Measurement is Necessary Even in Nonobese Japanese Children
title_short High Blood Pressure in Obese and Nonobese Japanese Children: Blood Pressure Measurement is Necessary Even in Nonobese Japanese Children
title_sort high blood pressure in obese and nonobese japanese children: blood pressure measurement is necessary even in nonobese japanese children
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3900836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20699600
http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20090207
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