Association between tobacco exposure, blood pressure, and arterial stiffness in South African adults and children

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Introduction: Sociodemographic factors, health status and health behaviour have all been associated with arterial stiffness. We examined the association between tobacco use or exposure and pulse wave velocity (PWV, a marker of arterial stiffness) in black South African adults and children against a background of other known risk factors. Methods: Two datasets were used: African-PREDICT (A-P; n=587 apparently healthy black adult men and women, 20-30 years) and Birth-to-Twenty-Plus (Bt20; n=95 black adult women, 28-68 years and n=47 black children, 4-10 years). A cotinine value >10 ng/ml in urine (Bt20) or serum (A-P) was considered as tobacco exposed and carotid-femoral PWV was measured using the SphygmoCor XCEL device. Regression analysis included cotinine and other known risk factors. Results: One third of adults (32%) and almost half of all children (45%) were tobacco exposed with the prevalence of elevated blood pressure (BP) approximately twice as high as their non-exposed counterparts (adults, p=0.014; children, p=0.017). Cotinine was the only variable that significantly associated positively with PWV in both adults and children in univariate analysis (p<0.05), but only MAP remained significant for adults in multivariate analysis (p=0.001). Conclusions: In this sample, tobacco exposure was adversely associated with vascular health in adults and children. BP was higher in the tobacco exposed adults and children compared to their non-exposed counterparts. These findings suggest tobacco cessation programs for adults should include screening for blood pressure and consider the impact of tobacco exposure on child vascular health.

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