The association between obesity, hypertension and left ventricular mass in adolescents

Dibeklioglu S. E., ŞAYLAN ÇEVİK B., Acar B., ÖZÇAKAR Z. B., Uncu N., Kara N., ...More

JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM, vol.30, no.2, pp.167-174, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 30 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2017
  • Doi Number: 10.1515/jpem-2016-0170
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.167-174
  • Keywords: adolescence, hypertension, left ventricular hypertrophy, left ventricular mass index, obesity, AMBULATORY BLOOD-PRESSURE, CHILDREN, HYPERTROPHY, INDEX
  • Ankara University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Background: Obesity and hypertension (HT) are well known cardiac risk factors. Our goal was to show that even if arterial blood pressure (BP) measurements of obese adolescents are normal during clinical examination, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) can be high, may include cardiac involvement and can also detect left ventricular mass indices (LVMI) value for obese adolescents to diagnose left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH).