[Association of body segments and body composition with blood pressure in young adults].

Skeletal structure and body composition may be altered permanently in response to aggressions during critical periods of growth. This increases propensity to adverse effects in adulthood. The study explored the association of anthropometric variables of body size and proportions and of body composition with systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure (BP) in young adults.

Hypertension, overweight and abdominal adiposity in women. An analytical perspective.

Background: The aim of our study was to determine in a group of premenopausal (preM) and postmenopausal women with hormone replacement therapy (postM-HRT) or without HRT (postM-noHRT) whether the strength of the association of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) with hypertension is affected by the way in which these variables are used (i.e., continuous or dichotomous) in logistic regression modeling, where weight and age are set as continuous variables only.