Amiri P, Rezaei M, Jalali-Farahani S, et al. - The results highlight the prognostic value of maternal characteristics in anticipating the occurrence of hypertension (HTN) in their offspring. The current findings could be useful in developing related hypertension prevention programmes in other communities.

• Age, education, employment, smoking, physical activity, metabolic syndrome (MetS), HTN, weight status, and diabetes were used to categorize parents into low and high-risk clusters.

• One thousand six hundred sixty-nine children and their parents were involved in the cluster analysis.

• The average age of the children was 13.96 ± 2.89 years, and 51.2% (n = 854) were girls.

• The most relevant characteristics separating low and high-risk parental clusters were MetS, HTN, and weight status.

• In boys and girls, the crude incidence rates (per 10,000 person-years) of HTN were 86 and 38, respectively.

• Furthermore, the incidence rates of HTN (per 10,000 person-years) in maternal low and high-risk clusters were 50 and 80, respectively.

• HTN incidence rates (per 10,000 person-years) were 53 and 68 in paternal low and high-risk clusters, respectively.