Prevalence of High Blood Pressure among Young Rural Adults in Relation to Height in Childhood and Adult Body Mass Index

Abstract

The primary prevention of the epidemic of high blood pressure in India may require measures to prevent children from being stunted in early childhood and also prevent them from being overweight at young adulthood.

Prevalence of hypertension and its associated risk factors in young adults attending a tertiary care institute of Nagpur: a cross sectional study

“…[22][23][24][25][26][27][28] Similar studies conducted by Al Majed et al and Kanade et al found higher prevalence in this age group. 29,30 The National Health and Nutrition Survey for the year 2012-2013 reports that the prevalence of hypertension in young adults of United States to be 7.3%, this prevalence is also lower than our study. 15 These statistics indicate that there is higher burden among developing countries like India.…”

Childhood obesity and adult cardiovascular disease risk factors: a systematic review with meta-analysis

“…A general description of the characteristics of each study is shown in Table 1 . Of the 4840 citations reviewed, a total of 23 were included in the systematic review [ 4 , 64 – 85 ] and 21 in the meta-analysis [ 4 , 64 – 69 , 71 – 79 , 81 – 85 ]. A description of the search process, including the reasons for excluded studies, is shown in Fig.…”

“…The year that each study started varied considerably, ranging from 1923 to 1989 while the year that studies were published ranged from 1971 to 2014. Studies were conducted in eleven different countries; six in the U.S. [ 4 , 64 , 66 , 67 , 73 , 75 ], three in United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland and Newcastle) [ 76 , 83 , 85 ], three in Finland [ 65 , 68 , 81 ], two in Australia [ 77 , 82 ], and one in either Sweden [ 69 ], India [ 71 ], Lithuania [ 72 ], Poland [ 74 ], the Republic of Seychelles [ 78 ], Japan [ 79 ], or the Solomon Islands [ 84 ]. Most studies used a prospective longitudinal study design except for two studies that used a retrospective study design [ 65 , 73 ].…”

“…As most of the studies were prospective longitudinal studies, the number of subjects at baseline was often greater than the number of participants at follow-up due to loss at follow-up. Seven studies included information on loss to follow-up [ 4 , 68 , 69 , 71 , 72 , 77 , 82 ]. Reasons for ‘lost to follow-up’ included the following: (1) refused to participate, (2) inability to locate, (3) did not respond to contact, (4) participants out of country or town at time of follow-up, (5) death, (6) difficult to contact married girls in India who left their native village, (7) social disadvantage (less well educated and having lower family income).…”

Differential DNA methylation patterns between high and low responders to a weight loss intervention in overweight or obese adolescents: the EVASYON study

“…One additional advantage of our analysis in adolescents is the absence of obesity‐associated comorbidities or pharmacological treatment that could mask the results. Moreover, obesity treatment during adolescence should be a priority subject of study, since improvements in obesity at this stage have been demonstrated to lead to maintained changes during adulthood that could decrease the risk of developing obesity‐related comorbidities, such as metabolic syndrome (40), hypertension (41), or even some cancer types (42).…”