A quantitative evaluation of the effects of sex and age on the positivity of family history of hypertension

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 99-105

  Saito, T ^a   Saito, I ^b   Nanri, S ^c   Furukawa, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SRL INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 37849186959     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.8.99     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Cavalli-Sforza LL, Bodmer WF. The Genetics of Human Populations. San Francisco: WH Freeman and Company, 1971:531-537.
2. Stamler J, Stamler R, Riedlinger WF, Algera G, Roberts RH. Hypertension screening of 1 million Americans: Community Hypertension Evaluation Clinic (CHEC) program, 1973 through 1975, JAMA, 1976; 235: 2299-2306.
3. Blonde CV, Webber LS, Foster TA, Berenson GS. Parental history and cardiovascular disease risk factor variables in children. Prev Med, 1981; 10:25-37.
4. Lauer RM, Clarke WR. Childhood risk factors for high adult blood pressure: The Muscatine Study. Pediatrics, 1989; 84: 633-641.
5. Gyârfas I. Blood pressure in childhood and adolescence. Results from an international collaborative study on juvenile hypertension, Acta Paediatr Scand, 1985 (suppl); 318:11-22.
6. Eiff AW, Gogolin E, Jacobs U, Neus H. Ambulatory blood pressure in children followed for 3 years. Influence of sex and family history of hypertension, Clin Exper Theory Practice, 1986; 8:577-581.
7. Shear CL, Burke GL, Freedman DS, Berenson GS. Value of childhood blood pressure measurements and family history in predicting future blood pressure status: results from 8 years of follow-up in the Bogalusa Heart Study, Pediatrics, 1986; 77: 862-869.
8. Wada J, Ueda K. Correlation between changes in blood pressure from adolescence to young adulthood and history of parental hypertension and obesity, Japanese Journal of Public Health, 1990; 37:775-780. (in Japanese)
9. Burke GL, Savage PJ, Sprafka JM, et al.. Relation of risk factor levels in young adulthood to parental history of disease. The CARDIA study, Circulation, 1991; 84: 1176-1187.
10. Bao W, Srinivasan SR, Wattigney WA, Berenson GS. The relation of parental cardiovascular disease to risk factors in children and young adults. The Bogalusa Heart Study, Circulation, 1995; 91: 365-371.
11. Hosmer DW, Lemeshow S. Applied logistic regression, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1989.
12. SAS Institute Inc. PC-SAS, SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT software. Version 6, Cary, NC, USA.
13. A WHO Expert Committee: Blood pressure studies in children, World Health Organization Tech Rep Ser, NO.715, Geneva: WHO, 1984.
14. Lauer RM, Burns TL, Clarke WR, Mahoney LT. Childhood predictors of future blood pressure, Hypertension 1991; 18 (suppl 1): 74-81.
15. Health Service Bureau, Ministry of Health and Welfare. Distribution of hypertension by sex and age group. In: Summary of National Survey of Circulatory Disorders 1990. Osaka: Japan Cardiovascular Research Foundation, 1993: 168. (in Japanese)
16. Health Service Bureau, Ministry of Health and Welfare. Blood pressure by sex and age. In: Results of the National Nutrition Survey. Tokyo: Daiichi Publishing company, 1993-1997. (in Japanese)
17. World Health Organization. Guidelines for the control of mild hypertension, Memorandom from a WHO/ISH meeting. Bull World Health Organ 1983; 61:53-36.
18. Rothman KJ. Modern Epidemiology. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1986:23-34.
19. United Nations: Marriages by age of bridegroom and by age of bride. Live births by age of mother, sex and urban/rural residence. In: Demographic Yearbook, 1992. United Nations: New York, 1994: PP307-317,342-408.
20. Hunt SC, Williams RR, Barlow GK. A comparison of positive family history definition for defining risk of future disease, J Chron Dis, 1986; 39:809-821.
21. Köbberling J. Studies on the genetic heterogeneity of diabetes mellitus, Diabetologia, 1971; 7:46-49.
22. Beaty TH, Fajans SS. Estimating genetic and non-genetic components of variance for fasting glucose levels in pedigrees ascertained through non-insulin dependent diabetes. Ann Hum Genet, 1982; 46:355-362.
23. Groeneveld HT, Hitzeroth HW. Quantification of familial predisposition to disease. South African Statist J, 1991; 25:45-60.
24. Saito T, Nanri S, Saito I, Nagano S Kagamimori, S. A novel approach to assessing family history in the prevention of coronary heart disease. J Epidemiol, 1997; 7: 8592.