Association Between Early Life Growth and Blood Pressure Trajectories in Black South African Children.

ABSTRACT: Early growth is associated with blood pressure measured on one occasion, but whether early life growth patterns are associated with longitudinal blood pressure trajectories is under-researched. Therefore, we sought to examine the association between early growth and blood pressure trajectories from childhood to adulthood. Blood pressure was measured on 7 occasions between ages 5 and 18 years in the Birth to Twenty cohort study, and conditional variables for growth in infancy and mid-childhood were computed from anthropometric measures (n=1937, 52% girls). We used a group-based trajectory modeling approach to identify distinct height-adjusted blood pressure trajectories and then tested their association with growth between birth and mid-childhood adjusting for several covariates. Three traj

SUBMITTER: Kagura J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5882233 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature