ArticleJournal of human hypertension2015
Associations between adiposity indicators and elevated blood pressure among Chinese children and adolescents.
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- Diagnostic accuracy of anthropometric indices for discriminating elevated blood pressure in pediatric population: a systematic review and a meta-analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2022Pooled it
- Associations of anthropometric adiposity indexes with hypertension risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis including PURE-China.Medicine · 2018Pooled it
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- Prevalence of high blood pressure subtypes and its associations with BMI in Chinese children: a national cross-sectional survey.BMC public health · 2017Trial
- Adiposity and Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents: A National Cross-Sectional Study in China.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Waist-to-height-ratio is associated with sustained hypertension in children and adolescents with high office blood pressure.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
- Diagnostic Precision of Anthropometric Variables for the Detection of Hypertension in Children and Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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- Blood Pressure, Heart Rate Variability, and Adiposity in Caribbean Pre-pubertal Children.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2019Article
- Prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension and its association with anthropometrics among children: a cross-sectional survey in Tianjin, China.Journal of human hypertension · 2018Article
- The value of hip circumference/heightScientific reports · 2018Article
- Associations between general and central obesity and hypertension among children: The Childhood Obesity Study in China Mega-Cities.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Evaluation of Hip/HeightJournal of atherosclerosis and thrombosis · 2017Article
- Comparison of adiposity measures in the identification of children with elevated blood pressure in Guangzhou, China.Journal of human hypertension · 2015Article
- Adiposity indicators and blood pressure in children: nothing beyond body mass index?Journal of human hypertension · 2015Article
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Abstract
Adiposity is closely related to elevated blood pressure (BP); however, which adiposity indicator is the best predictor of elevated BP among children and adolescents is unclear. To clarify this, 99,366 participants aged 7-17 years from the Chinese National Survey on Students' Constitution and Health in 2010 were included in this study. The adiposity indicators, including weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), hip circumference, body adiposity index (BAI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and skinfold thickness, were converted into z-scores before use. The associations between elevated BP and adiposity indicators z-scores were assessed by using logistic regression model and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). In general, BAI, BMI and WHtR z-scores were superior for predicting elevated BP compared with weight, waist circumference, hip circumference, WHR and skinfold thickness z-scores. In both sexes, BMI z-score revealed slightly higher AUCs than other indicators. Our findings suggest that general adiposity indicators were equivalent, if not superior, to abdominal adiposity indicators to predict elevated BP. BMI could be a better predictor of elevated BP than other studied adiposity indicators in children.
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