Temporal relation between blood pressure and serum creatinine in young adults from a biracial community - The Bogalusa Heart Study

It is well recognized that end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is associated wit h accelerated and malignant hypertension. The association of renal disease and what is considered as normal blood pressure is still not clear. The pre sent study examined the temporal relation between blood pressure and renal function reflected by serum creatinine in a biracial (black-white) communit y-based population enrolled in the Bogalusa Heart Study. The study included 662 young adults aged 19 to 32 years, (white men, n = 188; white women, n = 289; black men, n = 67; and black women, n = 118) who were followed for a n average of 7.4 years. In black men, partial correlation adjusted for age, body mass index, serum glucose, uric acid, and cigarette smoking showed th at baseline systolic and diastolic blood pressure are not significantly rel ated to baseline serum creatinine, but significantly related to serum creat inine at follow-up (r = 0.38, P = .008 and r = 0.42, P = .003, respectively ). Multivariate regression analysis further showed a significant prediction of serum creatinine at follow-up by baseline systolic and diastolic blood pressure 0.031 mg/dL and 0.037 mg/dL rise in follow-up serum creatinine for every 10 mm Hg increase in systolic (P = .000) and diastolic (P = .001) bl ood pressure at baseline, but not the other way around. Other race and sex groups did not show such significant temporal relations. We conclude that i n young black men, higher blood pressure levels within normal range precede and explain part of the increase in serum creatinine, a measure of decline in renal function. Thus, our results underscore the beneficial effect of m aintaining blood pressure levels lower than what is considered as the upper normal limit, particularly in black men. (C) 2000 American Journal of Hype rtension, Ltd.