Parental history of hypertension is associated with narrower retinal arteriolar caliber in young girls

Hypertension

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 425-430

  Gopinath, Bamini ^a   Baur, Louise A ^b   Hardy, Louise L ^b   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,c   Teber, Erdahl ^a   Wong, Tien Y ^c,d   Mitchell, Paul ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

blood pressure; children; obesity; Parental history; retinal vascular caliber; Sydney Childhood Eye Study

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAMERA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREPUBERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA ARTERIOLAR; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADIPOSITY; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETINAL ARTERY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 80051928118     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.177022     Document Type: Article

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