Age-related suppression effect of current body weight on the association between birthweight and blood pressure: The Bogalusa heart study.

Miaoying YunXuan WangLijun FanYinkun YanLydia BazzanoJiang HeShengxu Li Tao ZhangWei Chen

Published in: Pediatric obesity (2020)

Current body weight has a suppression effect, not a mediation effect, on the birthweight-BP association, with pre-adolescents having the greatest suppression effect. The suppression effect is predominantly determined by birthweight-BMI and BMI-BP correlations.

Keyphrases

body weight
blood pressure
body mass index
heart failure
young adults
type diabetes
physical activity
gestational age
metabolic syndrome
depressive symptoms
weight gain
atrial fibrillation
social support
skeletal muscle
heart rate