The Research on Relationship between Adult Blood Pressure and Physique on Physique Monitoring in Shandong Province

Quantitative genetic analysis of the body composition and blood pressure association in two ethnically diverse populations

“…The bivariate family‐based variance component analysis suggested possible influence of the pleiotropic genetic factors of blood pressure and body composition, specifically FMI, FFMI and endomorphy irrespective of ethnic variation. This conclusion is also in agreement with earlier studies conducted on ethnically diverse populations (Al‐Sendi, Shetty, Musaiger, & Myatt, ; Henriksson et al, ; Kalichman et al, ; Katzmarzyk et al, ; Livshits & Gerber, ; Min‐Hang et al, ; North et al, ; Tesfaye et al, ).…”

“…Previous studies have, in particular, extensively examined the relationship of obesity with the variety of morbidity categories, including blood pressure and hypertension. They demonstrated significant associations, which remained significant also after adjustment for covariates, including age and sex (Herrera, Rebato, Hernandez, Hernandez‐Valera, & Alfonso‐Sanchez, ; Kalichman, Livshits, & Kobyliansky, ; Min‐Hang, Pei‐You, & Hui, ; Tesfaye et al, ). It has also been shown that genetic factors play a significant role in the variation of body physique, regardless of whether BCP (Elder et al, ; Rebato, Jelenkovic, & Salces, ), STP (Peeters et al, ; Saranga et al, ) or other morphometric assessments (Livshits, Roset, Yakovenko, Trofimov, & Kobyliansky, ) were considered.…”

“…Although heritability estimates vary widely, as a rule they explain >40% of the phenotypic variation. Similarly, genetic factors play an important role in determining the variation of physiological traits like blood pressure (van Rijn et al, ) as well as contribute significantly to correlation between body physique, specifically obesity and blood pressure (Livshits & Gerber, ; Min‐Hang et al, ). However, detailed answers to several important questions are yet to be obtained.…”

Human adaptation to cold and warm climatic conditions: A comparison between two geographically diverse Indigenous populations

“…Previous studies examining associations between body composition and blood pressure (BP) suggest positively significant associations, which remained significant even after adjustment for covariates, including age and sex (Herrera et al, 2004; Kalichman et al, 2004; Livshits & Gerber, 2001; Min‐hang et al, 2010; Rutten et al, 2012; Tesfaye et al, 2007). In particular, it was reported that populations living in cold climates exhibit prevalence of obesity and hypertension (Ghosh et al, 2017; Lin et al, 2018) as compared with their counterparts from hot climates (Ghosh et al, 2017).…”