ArticleEuropean journal of pediatrics2009
Blood pressure levels in childhood: probing the relative importance of birth weight and current size.
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- The Association Between High Birth Weight and Long-Term Outcomes-Implications for Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
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- Association of Birthweight with Overweight, Obesity, and Blood Pressure among Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- IgE-Mediated Systemic Anaphylaxis And Its Association With Gene Polymorphisms Of ACE, Angiotensinogen And Chymase.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2019Article
- Kidneys in 5-year-old preterm-born children: a longitudinal cohort monitoring of renal function.Pediatric research · 2017Article
- Development of hypertension in overweight adolescents: a review.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2015Review
- Childhood obesity, arterial stiffness, and prevalence and treatment of hypertension.Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine · 2014Article
- The effect of abnormal birth history on ambulatory blood pressure and disease progression in children with chronic kidney disease.The Journal of pediatrics · 2014Observational
- How the kidney is impacted by the perinatal maternal environment to develop hypertension.Biology of reproduction · 2013Review
- Does low birth weight affect the presence of cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight and obese children?European journal of pediatrics · 2013Article
- Birth weight and childhood blood pressure.Current hypertension reports · 2012Review
- Big mother or small baby: which predicts hypertension?Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2011Article
- Prenatal Programming and Epigenetics in the Genesis of the Cardiorenal Syndrome.Cardiorenal medicine · 2011Article
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Abstract
Several studies have reported data supporting the idea that an impaired intrauterine environment that deprives the fetus of optimal nutrient delivery results in the predisposition of the fetus to experience cardiovascular and metabolic dysfunction in later life. However, contradictory data still exist. Our purpose was to investigate the effects of both birth weight and weight gain on the risk for high blood pressure levels in 6- to 10-year-old children. This cross-sectional study included 739 children divided into quartiles of birth weight. The mean values of both systolic and diastolic pressure were significantly different between quartiles of birth weight, with increasing blood pressure values as the birth weight decreased (P<0.001). Covariance analysis adjusting for gender, prematurity, and body mass index (BMI) showed that both systolic and diastolic pressure remained greater in the lowest than in the highest birth weight quartile. Separating those with low and normal birth weight demonstrated that the risk of childhood hypertension was significantly higher among children with low birth weight and current obesity (odds ratio [OR]: 5.0, confidence interval [CI]: 3.3 to 16.1; P=0.023). The inverse association between birth weight and blood pressure levels appears to be programmed during fetal life, while weight gain during childhood adds to this risk.
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