Marcato Daniele Gasparini, Sampaio Jéssica Dutra, Alves Eduardo Roberty Badiani, Jesus Julyanna Silva Araujo de, Fuly Jeanne Teixeira Bessa, Giovaninni Nayara Paula Bermudes, Costalonga Everlayny Fiorot
Medical School, Universidade de Vila Velha, Vila Velha, ES, Brazil.
Pharmacy School, UVV, Vila Velha, ES, Brazil.
Arq Bras Endocrinol Metabol. 2014 Nov;58(8):802-6. doi: 10.1590/0004-2730000003312. Epub 2014 Nov 1.
Sitting height (SH) is an important parameter in the evaluation of children with growth and pubertal disorders. Besides this, it has been viewed as a biomarker of cardiovascular risk, which is increased in adults with relatively short legs. So, the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between body proportions and cardiovascular risk markers in children.
Eight hundred and seventeen children aged 6-13 years were evaluated. Weight, height, sitting-height (SH), sitting-height/height (SH/H), body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure (BP) were assessed and converted to standard deviation scores (SDS) for age and sex. Statistical analyses were performed.
There was a positive association of BMI SDS with SH and SH/H SDS (p<0.001). Overweight children showed SH 0.8 SDS superior to eutrophic children (p<0.001). SH SDS was also directly related to BP SDS, but this association was not independent of the association between obesity and BP when assessed by multiple regression analyzes.
Measures of SH are strongly associated with BMI and BP in children, although the association between SH and BP is probably dependent on the association of both those variables with BMI. This is (an) important information for correct interpretation of SH values in children.
坐高（SH）是评估生长和青春期疾病患儿的一个重要参数。除此之外，它还被视为心血管风险的生物标志物，在腿相对较短的成年人中该风险会增加。因此，本研究的目的是评估儿童身体比例与心血管风险标志物之间的关系。
对817名6至13岁的儿童进行了评估。测量了体重、身高、坐高（SH）、坐高/身高（SH/H）、体重指数（BMI）和血压（BP），并将其转换为年龄和性别的标准差分数（SDS）。进行了统计分析。
BMI SDS与SH和SH/H SDS呈正相关（p<0.001）。超重儿童的SH比营养良好的儿童高0.8 SDS（p<0.001）。SH SDS也与BP SDS直接相关，但通过多元回归分析评估时，这种关联并不独立于肥胖与BP之间的关联。
儿童的SH测量值与BMI和BP密切相关，尽管SH与BP之间的关联可能取决于这两个变量与BMI的关联。这对于正确解读儿童的SH值是重要信息。
