Associations between obesity class and ambulatory blood pressure curves in African American women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Studies of body size and blood pressure (BP) in African American women typically focus on obesity overall or collapse obesity classes II and III into a single subgroup, ignoring potential heterogeneity in associations across categories. Moreover, ambulatory BP outcomes are primarily analyzed as mean daytime and/or nighttime BP, without examination of circadian changes during the day-to-night transition or the full 24-h cycle.

Methods

Functional data analysis methods were used to examine whether obesity categories modified ambulatory monitoring-assessed BP circadian rhythm in a cohort of 407 African American women.

Results

Age-adjusted systolic BP (SBP) was 4 mm Hg (95% CI: 0.4-8.4) higher among women with class I or II obesity than those with normal weight o

SUBMITTER: Murden RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11897855 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature