Associations of active and passive tobacco exposure with elevated blood pressure in Korean adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To test the hypothesis that tobacco exposure is associated with elevated blood pressure (EBP) in Korean adolescents, and that the association is dose dependent.

Methods

This cross-sectional study used data from the 2011-2020 Korea National Health and Nutrition Survey (KNHANES). Subjects were eligible if they were 13-18 years at the time of participation in KNHANES. Tobacco exposure was defined by urine cotinine level. The main outcomes were EBP and hypertension. Statistical analyses were conducted using SAS version 9.4 with appropriate sampling weights to account for the complex survey design, stratification, and cluster variable.

Results

A total of 2,518 adolescents was included in the analysis, representing 2.5 million Korean adolescents. The mean± standa

SUBMITTER: Park H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11040219 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature