[Relationship with height- and weight-characteristics].

Blood pressure (BP) has been measured by one observer among 837 male healthy subjects, aged 18. As it has been shown in previous studies, there is a strong correlation between BP and height, weight, overweight indices, and arm-circumference. The correlations of height and arm-circumference with BP are not fully explained by the weight. It seems to be, at this age, an association of BP with body dimensions, and not only with fatness. The strong association of BP with the lean body mass confirms this fact. It seems finally that BP level at the beginning of adulthood is, in a large extent, determined by body dimensions and the development of the osteomuscular system, and much lesser by adiposity. On the other hand, evolution during adulthood depends much more upon variation of the weight, i.e of the fatness.