ArticleEuropean journal of pediatrics2012
Correlation of blood pressure, obesity, and adherence to the Mediterranean diet with indices of arterial stiffness in children.
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- Dietary Intake and Arterial Stiffness in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- The Diet of Preschool Children in the Mediterranean Countries of the European Union: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Pooled it
- Validity of the MED4CHILD tool for assessing adherence to the Mediterranean diet in preschool children.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Relationship Between Dietary Patterns and Blood Pressure During Adolescence: A Longitudinal Analysis From Dados Study.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025Article
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- Diet-related inflammation is positively associated with atherogenic indices.Scientific reports · 2024Observational
- Associations of childhood diet quality scores with arterial stiffness and carotid artery intima-media thickness in adolescence/early adulthood: findings from the ALSPAC cohort.The British journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- The Effect of Diet on Vascular Aging: A Narrative Review of the Available Literature.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Vascular ageing: moving from bench towards bedside.European journal of preventive cardiology · 2023Article
- Factors associated with arterial stiffness assessed by pulse pressure amplification in healthy children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study.BMC pediatrics · 2023Observational
- Prospective association between a Mediterranean-style dietary score in childhood and cardiometabolic risk in young adults from the ALSPAC birth cohort.European journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- Are adherence to the Mediterranean diet and siesta individually or jointly associated with blood pressure in Spanish adolescents? Results from the EHDLA study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Diet quality trajectories and cardiovascular phenotypes/metabolic syndrome risk by 11-12 years.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2021Article
- Poor adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with increased likelihood of metabolic syndrome components in children: the Healthy Growth Study.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Association between Mediterranean Dietary Pattern and Breakfast Quality with Physical Fitness in School Children: The HIIT Project.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Adherence to a Mediterranean diet associated with lower blood pressure in a US sample: Findings from the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2020Article
- Association between diet quality indices and arterial stiffness in youth with type 1 diabetes: SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Nutrition Ancillary Study.Journal of diabetes and its complications · 2020Article
- Fatty Acid Profile of Mature Red Blood Cell Membranes and Dietary Intake as a New Approach to Characterize Children with Overweight and Obesity.Nutrients · 2020Observational
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Abstract
unlabelledThe aim of the study was to assess the hypothesis that obesity, blood pressure (BP), and dietary habits (adherence to the Mediterranean diet) are related to indices of arterial stiffness (AS) in childhood. Two hundred and seventy-seven children aged 12 years were measured with the R6.5 Pulsecor® monitor, which performs measurements using an upper arm BP cuff held at above systolic pressure for a short time. The augmentation index (AI) in the brachial artery, the peripheral pulse pressure to central pulse pressure (PPP/CPP) ratio, and the reflected wave transit time to height ratio were used as indices of AS. The degree of adherence to the Mediterranean diet was assessed by the KIDMED index which includes 16 questions on specific dietary habits. Forty-three percent of the children were overweight and obese. Overweight and obese children had significantly lower PPP/CPP and KIDMED score in comparison to children with normal body mass index (BMI). In multivariate regression models, indices of AS were related to mean peripheral BP, heart rate, and height, while BMI had an independent correlation to PPP/CPP. The KIDMED index also had a negative correlation with AI independently of obesity.
conclusionObesity and adherence to the Mediterranean diet patterns are factors related independently to indices of AS even in 12-year-old children.
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