The association between resting heart rate and blood pressure among children and adolescents with different waist circumferences

Abstract

This study revealed that BP was positively associated with RHR among children with different WCs, which implied the positive association between sympathetic activity and BP in children regardless of the amount of abdominal fat.

Prevalence of overweight and obesity in sedentary children and adolescents with or without intellectual disability in the Democratic Republic of Congo

“…The increased risk of obesity among children with ID has been reported in various countries, including Australia (Agerström & Rooth, 2011;Barton, 2010), France (Berge & Everts, 2011;Bleich et al, 2012), Japan , Korea (Stewart et al, 2009), Taiwan (Dong et al, 2015), United Kingdom (Jasik & Lustig, 2008;Murphy et al, 1998) and the United States (Larson et al, 1994;Small & Baur, 2008).…”

Association between resting heart rate and cardiovascular risk factors in adolescents

“…RHR is emerging as an easily measurable clinical parameter that is a predictive marker of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality [19][20][21]42]. Elevated RHR is associated with higher levels of blood pressure, abdominal obesity, triglycerides, and glucose in children and adolescents [12,17,18,22,28], indicating its potential as a screening tool of cardiovascular risk in children.…”

“…Previous studies [12,17,18,22,28] have analyzed the association between cardiovascular risk factors and elevated RHR in adolescents, but several aspects remain less clear. For example, previous studies rarely considered the role of clustering of cardiovascular risk factors and its relationship with RHR in children and adolescents.…”

Can a novel scoring system derived from hemodynamic and anthropometric variables predict sympathetic drive in young patients?

“…It may predict the development of hypertension later in life [23]. In a large-scale observational study, Dong et al [24] documented that the association of HR and BP is prominent in young adolescents with increased waist circumference. Obesity and insulin resistance, either alone or together, are associated with increased sympathetic activity and impaired control of cardiac autonomic functions, independent of age [6,25,26].…”