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J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:58 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096727f
  • Friday 11 September, Parallel session C
  • Ethnicity and young people

Emergence of ethnic differences in blood pressure in adolescence: the determinants of adolescent social well-being and health longitudinal study

  1. E. Lenguerrand1,
  2. S. Harding1,
  3. M. Whitrow1,
  4. M. Maynard1,
  5. K. Cruickshank2,
  6. G. Der1,
  7. A. Teyhan1
  1. 1
    Medical Research Council, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
  2. 2
    Division of Cardiovascular and Endocrine Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

      Objective

      To examine ethnic differences in changes in Blood Pressure (BP) between early and late adolescence in the UK.

      Design

      Determinants of Adolescent Social well-being and Health (DASH) study: A cohort observational study.

      Setting

      Schools in ten London boroughs with high proportions of the main ethnic minority groups, UK.

      Participants

      White British (692), Black Caribbeans (670), Black Africans (772), Indians (384), and Pakistanis and Bangladeshis …

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