Childhood mental ability and blood pressure at midlife: linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and the Midspan studies

J. M. Starr; Mark Steven Taylor; C. L. Hart; G. Davey-Smith; Lawrence Jeffrey Whalley; D. J. Hole; V. Wilson; I. J. Deary

doi:10.1097/00004872-200405000-00009

Childhood mental ability and blood pressure at midlife: linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and the Midspan studies

J. M. Starr, Mark Steven Taylor, C. L. Hart, G. Davey-Smith, Lawrence Jeffrey Whalley, D. J. Hole, V. Wilson, I. J. Deary

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Abstract

Objectives To establish the relationship between childhood mental ability and adult hypertension.

Design Retrospective cohort study.

Setting Community.

Participants Non-clinical sample of people born in 1921 who participated in both the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 and the Midspan studies. Nine hundred and thirty-eight people were participants in both studies.

Main outcome measures Mid-life systolic and diastolic blood pressure, intelligence quotient (IQ) at age 11 years, sex, social class, height and weight.

Results After adjustment for age, sex, social class, body mass index, height, cholesterol level and smoking, there remained a 3.15 mmHg decrease in systolic blood pressure and a 1.5 mmHg decrease in diastolic blood pressure for each standard deviation increase in childhood IQ.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	893-897
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Hypertension
Volume	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/00004872-200405000-00009
Publication status	Published - 2004

Keywords

blood pressure
cognition
hypertension
intelligence
social class
INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES
HYPERTENSION
DEMENTIA
LIFE
LEAD
DISEASE
ALLELE
RISK
AGE

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