Other factors such as blood lipids, pulmonary function, the heart rate and hematocrit have also been implicated but with some inconsistency among different studies [4,75,92,93]. Also, low weight at 1 year-old has been suggested as LV hypertrophy risk fac- tor, concordant with Barker's ...
5,65,75]. Other reports usually stratify their analysis by or restrict to those with hypertension to allow better evaluation of additional risk factors [45,73,76,77]. It is interesting that even within the normal range, increases in blood pressure is related to an increased ...