Predicting resting blood pressure at 18 years: the Dunedin Study

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Predicting resting blood pressure at 18 years: the Dunedin Study

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Purpose: To examine the value of repeated blood pressure screening during childhood, and exercise testing in adolescence, for predicting resting blood pressure at eighteen years. Method: Regular measures of blood pressure and other variables in a birth cohort from 7 to 18 years. Cardiovascular responses to exercise testing at 15 and 18 years. Results: The best predictors of resting blood pressure at 18 years were body size at 18 years and resting blood pressure at 15 years. Neither exercise a...

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Date created

1995

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St. George, I.M. / Williams, S.M. / Macfarlane, D.J. / Silva, P.A.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/14399

Related subjects

adolescence / blood pressure / body size / exercise testing / hypertension

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