Secondhand Smoke May Set Kids Up for Hypertension
Researchers measure link between tobacco-specific
nitrosamine and higher blood pressure
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./.../
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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