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Thursday, May 02, 2019

Second hand smoking

Secondhand Smoke May Set Kids Up for Hypertension

Researchers measure link between tobacco-specific
nitrosamine and higher blood pressure

  • by  Staff Writer, MedPage Today
BALTIMORE -- Children were more likely to have increased blood pressure, and a higher risk for hypertension, if they were exposed to tobacco-specific metabolites found in secondhand smoke, researchers reported here.
Among boys, the carcinogen 4-(methyl-nitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol (NNAL) was associated with increased diastolic blood pressure (DBP) but not systolic blood pressure (SBP) after adjusting for race or ethnicity, ratio of family poverty to income, waist circumference, cadmium and lead exposure, first albumin creatinine ratio, and urinary creatinine, according to Karen Wilson, MD, MPH, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and colleagues./.../

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