IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v13y2016i9p856-d76872.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Components of Height and Blood Pressure among Ellisras Rural Children: Ellisras Longitudinal Study

Author

Listed:
  • Nthai Ramoshaba

    (Department of Physiology and Environmental Health, University of Limpopo, Polokwane 0700, South Africa)

  • Kotsedi Monyeki

    (Department of Physiology and Environmental Health, University of Limpopo, Polokwane 0700, South Africa)

  • Leon Hay

    (Department of Physiology, Sefako Makgatho Health Science University, Pretoria 0001, South Africa)

Abstract

To date, there has been no study done investigating the relationship between the components of height and blood pressure (BP) in rural South African children. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between height, sitting height (SH), leg length (LL), and SH-to-height ratio (SH/H) with BP in Ellisras rural children. All children underwent anthropometric and BP measurements using standard procedure. Linear regression was used to assess the relationship between height, SH, LL, SH/H, and BP. The regression showed a positive significant ( p < 0.001) association between systolic BP (SBP) with height and SH (β ranged from 0.127 to 0.134 and 95% CI ranged from 0.082 to 0.415). Diastolic BP (DBP) also showed a positive significant ( p < 0.001) association with height and SH (β ranged from 0.080 to 0.088 and 95% CI ranged from 0.042 to 0.259). After having been adjusted for age, gender, body mass index, and waist circumference, DBP showed a positive significant ( p < 0.05) association with height. There was a positive significant association between DBP and SBP together with the components of height amongst Ellisras rural children.

Suggested Citation

  • Nthai Ramoshaba & Kotsedi Monyeki & Leon Hay, 2016. "Components of Height and Blood Pressure among Ellisras Rural Children: Ellisras Longitudinal Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-9, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:13:y:2016:i:9:p:856-:d:76872
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/9/856/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/9/856/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:13:y:2016:i:9:p:856-:d:76872. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.