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Rapid Weight Gain in Babies may Lead to High BP in Adulthood
The researchers examined first five years of life of the babies and found that babies that gain weight more rapidly in the first five months after birth and from about ages 2 to 5 years have higher systolic blood pressure in young adulthood.
Immediate weight gain after birth was also linked higher adult diastolic blood pressure.
Systolic blood pressure is the first number in a blood pressure reading and represents the pressure in the arteries while the heart contracts. Diastolic blood pressure represents the pressure when the heart relaxes between beats.
"Changes in immediate (or the first five months) post-natal weight gain and childhood weight gain were associated with small changes in systolic blood pressure (around 1-1.5 millimeters of mercury [mmHg]) that were probably not due to chance," said Yoav Ben-Shlomo, lead author of the study and professor of clinical epidemiology in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol, U.K.
"At an individual level, these changes would not be very important but in public health terms they are relevant," Ben-Shlomo added.
The researchers evaluated 679 adults (about age 25) whose growth patterns were tracked as infants as part of the Barry Caerphilly Growth Study. Measurements had been recorded at 14 points between birth and age five.
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