Nature or nurture; BMI and blood pressure at 90. Findings from the Belfast Elderly Longitudinal Free-living Aging STudy (BELFAST).

Age (Dordr) · 2009 · PMC2813048 · PMID 19496022

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approaching significanceP = 0.07so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

In age-sex-adjusted logistic regression models, blood pressure ≥140/90 mmHg significantly associated with body mass index (BMI) [odds ratio (OR) = 1.28/ kg/m 2 ], with weight (OR = 1.22/kg) approaching significance ( P = 0.07).

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approached significanceP = 0.16not close (p > 0.1)

Skin fold thickness and serum sodium level positively associated across incremental thirds of systolic blood pressure ( P for trend = 0.01, P = 0.002 respectively), and weight ( P = 0.08), waist ( P = 0.08), waist-hip-ratio WHR ( P = 0.07) approached significance though the effect for BMI ( P = 0.16) was not so clear.

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did not achieve significanceno p-value reported

In the BELFAST study, it was noteworthy that, although increases in weight significantly associated across the tertiles of blood pressure, the trend for BMI did not achieve significance.

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