Arterial Structural and Functional Characteristics at End of Early Childhood and Beginning of Adulthood: Impact of Body Size Gain during Early, Intermediate, Late and Global Growth.

ABSTRACT: An association between nutritional characteristics in theearlylife stages and the state of the cardiovascular (CV) system in early childhood itself and/or at the beginning of adulthood has been postulated. It is still controversial whether changes in weight, height and/or body mass index (BMI) during childhood or adolescence are independently associated with hemodynamics and/or arterial properties in early childhood and adulthood. First, to evaluate and compare the strength of association between CVproperties (at 6 and 18 years (y)) and (a) anthropometric data at specific growth stages (e.g., birth, 6 y, 18 y) and (b) anthropometric changes during early (0-2 y), intermediate (0-6 y), late (6-18 y) and global (0-18 y) growth. Second, to determine whether the associations between CVpropertie

SUBMITTER: Castro JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6787690 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature