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Does obesity increase 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure and arterial stiffness in office normotensive children and adolescents?
Does obesity increase 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure and arterial stiffness in office normotensive children and adolescents?
Obese children have significantly higher ambulatory systolic blood pressure and arterial stiffness compared to normal-weight peers, even when office blood pressure is normal.
Obesity associated with higher ambulatory SBP and arterial stiffness in office-normotensive youth; hypothesis-generating, warrants prospective outcome studies.
The aim of the present study was to investigate differences regarding 24-hour blood pressure and arterial stiffness in a cohort of office normotensive obese and non-obese children and adolescents, and to evaluate correlations of these parameters with some anthropometric indices. We retrospectively evaluated ABPM records in 71 children (42 boys); 31 obese compared with 40 normal-weight children. Results : Mean 24-hour, day-time and night-time SBP was significantly higher in the obese group than in the control group (p <0.01 during the entire period). Significantly higher AASI values were found in obese children compared to controls (0.45 vs. 0.41, p <0.05), the difference being more obvious for day-time AASI (p <0.001). Conclusions : This research confirms that SBP and AASI are increased in obese children. AASI is a useful index of arterial stiffness that can be easily measured under ambulatory circumstances in children.
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