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The relationship between parental history of vascular disease and cardiovascular disease risk factors in children: the Bogalusa Heart Study. 1985

C L Shear, and L S Webber, and D S Freedman, and S R Srinivasan, and G S Berenson

The relationship between parental history of vascular disease (heart attack, stroke, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension) and risk factor variables for cardiovascular disease was assessed in 3,312 offspring aged 5-17 years during the 1981-1982 school year in the biracial community of Bogalusa, Louisiana. Risk factors studied included systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, serum total cholesterol, triglycerides, and individual lipoprotein cholesterol (beta-, low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol; pre-beta, very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) cholesterol; and alpha-, high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol). Risk factors were adjusted for age, race, sex, and height (blood pressure only) prior to testing parental history effects. Univariate comparisons between risk factors in children and vascular disease in parents resulted in statistically significant increases in systolic and diastolic pressures associated with the presence of maternal or paternal hypertension (p less than 0.001). Paternal heart attack was also associated with elevations in diastolic pressure (p less than 0.01) of children. Maternal diabetes mellitus was associated with an increase in serum total cholesterol (p less than 0.05). Paternal diabetes mellitus and maternal heart attack (for female progeny only) were associated with increases in mean triglyceride levels of children. VLDL cholesterol results were similar to those for triglycerides. For HDL cholesterol, paternal diabetes mellitus was associated with a small decrease in mean levels (p less than 0.05). Dramatic increases to the highest decile of risk were found in association with the following parental disease combinations: paternal heart attack-paternal diabetes for serum total cholesterol (p less than 0.0001), maternal heart attack-paternal diabetes (p less than 0.001) and paternal stroke-maternal diabetes (p less than 0.0001) for LDL cholesterol. Multivariate analysis detected no significant effects of single parental vascular disease. However, paternal heart attack in combination with either diabetes mellitus or hypertension was statistically significant in their relationship to the risk factors overall.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D006973 Hypertension Persistently high systemic arterial BLOOD PRESSURE. Based on multiple readings (BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION), hypertension is currently defined as when SYSTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently greater than 140 mm Hg or when DIASTOLIC PRESSURE is consistently 90 mm Hg or more. Blood Pressure, High,Blood Pressures, High,High Blood Pressure,High Blood Pressures
D008145 Louisiana State bounded by Arkansas on the north, by Mississippi on the east, the Gulf of Mexico on the south and Texas on the west.
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D011446 Prospective Studies Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group. Prospective Study,Studies, Prospective,Study, Prospective
D011795 Surveys and Questionnaires Collections of data obtained from voluntary subjects. The information usually takes the form of answers to questions, or suggestions. Community Survey,Nonrespondent,Questionnaire,Questionnaires,Respondent,Survey,Survey Method,Survey Methods,Surveys,Baseline Survey,Community Surveys,Methodology, Survey,Nonrespondents,Questionnaire Design,Randomized Response Technique,Repeated Rounds of Survey,Respondents,Survey Methodology,Baseline Surveys,Design, Questionnaire,Designs, Questionnaire,Methods, Survey,Questionnaire Designs,Questionnaires and Surveys,Randomized Response Techniques,Response Technique, Randomized,Response Techniques, Randomized,Survey, Baseline,Survey, Community,Surveys, Baseline,Surveys, Community,Techniques, Randomized Response
D001794 Blood Pressure PRESSURE of the BLOOD on the ARTERIES and other BLOOD VESSELS. Systolic Pressure,Diastolic Pressure,Pulse Pressure,Pressure, Blood,Pressure, Diastolic,Pressure, Pulse,Pressure, Systolic,Pressures, Systolic
D002318 Cardiovascular Diseases Pathological conditions involving the CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM including the HEART; the BLOOD VESSELS; or the PERICARDIUM. Adverse Cardiac Event,Cardiac Events,Major Adverse Cardiac Events,Adverse Cardiac Events,Cardiac Event,Cardiac Event, Adverse,Cardiac Events, Adverse,Cardiovascular Disease,Disease, Cardiovascular,Event, Cardiac
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D002675 Child, Preschool A child between the ages of 2 and 5. Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D002784 Cholesterol The principal sterol of all higher animals, distributed in body tissues, especially the brain and spinal cord, and in animal fats and oils. Epicholesterol

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