Title
Parental body mass index and blood pressure are associated with higher body mass index and blood pressure in their adult offspring: a cross-sectional study in a resource-limited setting in northern Peru
Date Issued
01 May 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
Objectives: High body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure (BP) are major contributors to the high burden of non-communicable diseases in adulthood. Individual high-risk and population approaches for prevention require newer strategies to target these risk factors and focusing on the family to introduce prevention initiatives appears as a promising scenario. Characterisation of the relationship between BMI and BP among the adult members of a given family merits evaluation. We conducted a secondary analysis of an implementation study in Tumbes, Peru, benefiting from data derived from families with at least one adult offspring. Methods: The exposures of interest were the BMI, systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) of the mother and father. The outcomes were the BMI, SBP and DBP of the offspring. Mixed-effects linear regression models were conducted. Results: The mean age of the offspring, mothers and fathers was 29 (SD: 9.5), 54 (SD: 11.8) and 59 (SD: 11.6) years, respectively. Father's BMI was associated with a quarter-point increase in offspring BMI, regardless of the sex of the offspring. Mother's BMI had a similar effect on the BMI of her sons, but had no significant effect on her daughters’. Mother's SBP was associated with almost one-tenth of mmHg increase in the SBP of the adult offspring. There was no evidence of an association for DBP. Conclusions: In families with adult members, the higher the parents’ BMI and SBP, the higher their adult offspring's levels will be.
Start page
533
End page
540
Volume
23
Issue
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nutrición, Dietética
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85044734902
PubMed ID
Source
Tropical Medicine and International Health
ISSN of the container
13602276
Sponsor(s)
The authors are indebted to all the participants who kindly agreed to collaborate in the study. Special thanks to all field teams for their commitment and hard work. This study was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Project 1 U01 HL114180-01), United States, under The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) programme. CRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases is supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Global Health Initiative under the contract Global Health Activities in Developing Countries to Combat Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases (Project Number 268200900033C-1-0-1). RMC-L has received support as a research trainee from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI CRN3036). AB-O is a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow in Public Health and Tropical Medicine (103994/Z/14/Z). VGSyR was funded by the Dirección de Gestión de la Investigación at the PUCP through grant DGI-2015-200.
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