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Socioeconomic position and heart rate recovery after maximal exercise in children
Tajinder P Singh1, Sarah Evans
1Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA. tp.singh@cardio.chboston.org
Objective:
To determine whether socioeconomic (SE) position is associated with first-minute (1-minute) heart rate (HR) recovery in healthy children and adolescents (hereafter referred to as children).
Design:
In a cross-sectional study, we compared 1-minute HR recovery in 3 groups of children (low, medium, and high SE) using multivariable analysis. The groups were based on neighborhood SE data extracted from the US 2000 census database.
Setting:
Children's Hospital Boston.
Participants:
Four hundred eighty children referred for exercise testing to exclude cardiac disease and discharged as showing normal results.
Main Exposures:
Socioeconomic position and body mass index (BMI).
Main Outcome Measure:
Heart rate recovery after a maximal treadmill exercise test (Bruce protocol) following a consistent 1-minute cool-down period.
Results:
The low SE group had a higher proportion of children with a high BMI (> or =85th percentile) (P = .07) and exercised for a shorter duration, controlling for age, sex, and BMI (P < .001). After adjusting for age (P < .001) and sex (P < .001), a significant interaction of SE group with BMI was found (P = .04). There was no difference in HR recovery in the 3 SE groups in children with a normal BMI (<85th percentile). Among children with a high BMI, only those from low and middle SE neighborhoods had impaired 1-minute HR recovery.
Conclusion:
Children with a high BMI in low and middle SE positions appear to have worse cardiovascular health compared with children with a high BMI in a high SE position.
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