Zhejiang University

Academic Institute

Peige SongMiss Leying HouMiss Qian Yi

B3845

Elevated blood pressure, or hypertension, has become a major public health concern globally. Evidence shows that blood pressure tracks into adulthood. However, most epidemiology research to date on hypertension has focused on risk factors from single aspects, but it is becoming increasingly evident that early-life factors may come from multiple sources, such as society, community, family and individual. For example, a positive association between rapid weight gain and elevated blood pressure in both children and adults has been widely observed. Other community-based evidence shows that lower early-life environment exposure to residential greenness has been found to be independently associated with elevated blood pressure. Until recently, the combined effects and interplay of individual and community-level factors on the developmental programming of blood pressure are still limited, and further research is needed.

This research will expand its impact in the research field of public health, paediatric hypertension, environmental health.

26/08/2021