3.6 Fitness, Fatness and Exercise Blood Pressure in Adolescence

Exaggerated exercise blood pressure (BP) is associated with cardiovascular risk factors in adolescence. Aerobic fitness and adiposity (fat mass or ‘fatness’) are important independent contributors to cardiovascular risk in adolescence, but their interrelated associations with exercise BP are unknown. The aim of this study was to determine the respective relationship between fitness, fatness and exercise BP in a large birth cohort of adolescents. 2356 adolescents from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (aged 17.8 ± 0.4 years, 38.5