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Association between resting heart rate and cardiovascular risk factors in adolescents
Breno Quintella Farah, Diego Giulliano Destro Christofaro, P. Babu Balagopal, Bruno Remigio Cavalcante, Mauro Virgílio Gomes de Barros, et al. European Journal of Pediatrics ISSN 0340-6199 Eur J Pediatr DOI 10.1007/s00431-015-2580-y
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Author's personal copy Eur J Pediatr DOI 10.1007/s00431-015-2580-y
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Association between resting heart rate and cardiovascular risk factors in adolescents Breno Quintella Farah 1 & Diego Giulliano Destro Christofaro 2 & P. Babu Balagopal 3 & Bruno Remigio Cavalcante 1 & Mauro Virgílio Gomes de Barros 1 & Raphael Mendes Ritti-Dias 1,4
Received: 2 April 2015 / Revised: 2 June 2015 / Accepted: 8 June 2015 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Abstract This cross-sectional study was performed in 2011 and included 4619 Brazilian adolescents (14–19 years old) to analyze the association between elevated resting heart rate (RHR) and cardiovascular risk factors in boys and girls. RHR and blood pressure were measured using an oscillometric monitor. Overweight was assessed by body mass index and abdominal obesity by waist circumference. Physical activity levels and sedentary behaviors were obtained using a questionnaire. The effect of clustering of cardiovascular risk factors on RHR was analyzed. For boys, abdominal obesity (b=0.106, p=0.003), high sedentary behavior (b=0.099, b
