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Correlation of weight-height index with diastolic and with systolic blood pressure.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Sive, P. H. Medalie, Jack H. |
| Copyright Year | 1970 |
| Abstract | The relationship between blood pressure level and various parameters of body build and obesity has been extensively reported on, and the subject has been recently reviewed by Chiang, Perlman, and Epstein (1969). The relative strength of the correlation of these indices with systolic as compared with diastolic pressure varies. In some studies, the correlation with diastolic pressure was higher than that with systolic pressure (Dawber, Moore, and Mann, 1957; Khosla and Lowe, 1965; Reid, Holland, Humerfelt, and Rose, 1966) and in others, the reverse was reported (Hartman and Ghrist, 1929; Boynton and Todd, 1948; B0e, Humerfelt, and Wedervang, 1957). These apparently contradictory results may be due in part to the different indices of body build used and, in the report of Hartman and Ghrist, reservations regarding the reliability of the diastolic pressure readings. In view of these findings it was decided to investigate the correlation of systolic and diastolic pressures with a weight-height index in a population study when each pressure is adjusted for the effect of the other. This paper reports on differences in these correlations obtained from data of the Israel Ischemic Heart Disease Project. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://jech.bmj.com/content/jech/24/4/201.full.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 5496528v1 |
| Volume Number | 24 |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Journal | British journal of preventive & social medicine |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Diastole Diastolic blood pressure Heart failure Obesity Somatotype Systolic Pressure |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
