PMID- 11400219
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20010809
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 1042-0533 (Print)
IS  - 1042-0533 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 4
DP  - 2001 Jul-Aug
TI  - Effects of age, ethnicity and menopause on ambulatory blood pressure: 
      Japanese-American and Caucasian school teachers in Hawaii.
PG  - 486-93
AB  - Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) measurements of 120 female teachers of 
      Japanese-American or Caucasian ethnicity working in public schools located in 
      Hilo, Hawaii, were recorded. BP was measured at 15-min intervals during waking 
      hours and 30-min intervals during sleep over a 24-hr period that included a full 
      work day. These measurements were averaged during three daily settings: at work, 
      at home while awake ("home"), and during sleep. ANCOVAs using ethnicity as a 
      predictor variable of BP, with age and the body mass index (BMI) as covariates, 
      show a significant interaction effect between age and ethnicity in some daily 
      settings. Among Japanese-Americans partial correlations between age and systolic 
      BP controlling for the BMI are significant in these settings, while among 
      Caucasians none of the correlations are significant. Menopausal status is not 
      significantly related to BP when age is controlled in analyses. There was no 
      significant ethnic difference in number of symptoms reported, including frequency 
      of "hot flushes/flashes," within the past two weeks. Those who reported hot 
      flushes had significantly elevated BP in waking settings but not during sleep. 
      The greater increase in BP with age in Japanese-Americans may be related to their 
      elevated risk for development of hypertension. The lack of a significant 
      relationship between menopausal status and BP may be due to the high rate of 
      usage of hormonal replacement therapy in this sample, as well as an unusually 
      high rate of hysterectomy.
FAU - Brown, D E
AU  - Brown DE
AD  - Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, 96720, USA. 
      dbrown@hawaii.edu
FAU - Sievert, L L
AU  - Sievert LL
FAU - Aki, S L
AU  - Aki SL
FAU - Mills, P S
AU  - Mills PS
FAU - Etrata, M B
AU  - Etrata MB
FAU - Paopao, R N
AU  - Paopao RN
FAU - James, G D
AU  - James GD
LA  - eng
GR  - S06-GM08073-28/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - United States
TA  - Am J Hum Biol
JT  - American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology 
      Council
JID - 8915029
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Distribution
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Aged
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Asian/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Asian People/*genetics
MH  - Blood Pressure/*physiology
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Cross-Cultural Comparison
MH  - Estrogen Replacement Therapy
MH  - Faculty
MH  - Female
MH  - Hawaii
MH  - Humans
MH  - Hypertension/ethnology/*genetics
MH  - Hysterectomy
MH  - Japan/ethnology
MH  - Menopause/drug effects/ethnology/*genetics
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Monitoring, Ambulatory
MH  - Predictive Value of Tests
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - White People/*genetics/statistics & numerical data
EDAT- 2001/06/16 10:00
MHDA- 2001/08/10 10:01
CRDT- 2001/06/16 10:00
PHST- 2001/06/16 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2001/08/10 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2001/06/16 10:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/ajhb.1080 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Am J Hum Biol. 2001 Jul-Aug;13(4):486-93. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.1080.