Inferences from secular trend analysis of hypertension control.

Secular Trend in Portugal

This study of secular trend in Portugal has shown that a positive increment in height occurred in Portuguese 18year-old males between 1904 and 2000, and a secular trend in the age at menarche, towards an earliest age, also took place. Mean height increased 8.93 cm, from 1904 to 2000, when reached 172,13 cm. Besides that, in 2000, statistically significant differences (p ≤ 0.001) among the distr...

Growth variation, final height and secular trend

Growth and body height have always been interesting topics in the public opinion. Particularly the stupendous increase of some 15 to 19 cm in final adult height during the last 150 years in most European countries (the “secular trend”), the concomitant changes in body and head proportions, the tendency towards early onset of sexual maturation, the changes in the age when final height is being r...

A Trend Analysis of the Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension by Age Group

OBJECTIVES We examined the trends in prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in Korea as a basis for improving hypertension control programs. METHODS 12 598 participants of the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were included in this study. Weighted linear regression to test time trends from 2007 to 2011 was performed. RESULTS The prevalence of hyp...

Evidence for a secular trend in age of menarche.

Prevalence and secular trend of congenital anomalies in Glasgow, UK.

AIM To describe the epidemiology of congenital anomalies in Glasgow with special reference to secular trends. METHODS The prevalence of congenital anomalies was determined retrospectively in 233 777 births using the Glasgow Register of Congenital Anomalies for the period 1980-97. RESULTS The total prevalence of congenital anomalies was 324 per 10 000 births, declining by just over a third f...