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Schoolchildren are now battling hypertension, heralding rise in heart disease risk
There is a worrying rise in high blood pressure among Indian schoolchildren, previously rare in this age group. What was once ...
Presenter: Bonita Falkner, MD, Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Chair, National High Blood Pressure Education Program (NHBPEP) Working Group on High Blood Pressure in Children ...
Children and adolescents who become or remain obese are more than three times as likely to develop hypertension in a 3-year follow-up period compared with those who maintain a normal weight, according ...
In kids, the numbers are more complicated to interpret. Blood pressure starts out comparatively low in small children and rises as they grow. But “normal” varies by age, gender, body size and time of ...
Children and adolescents diagnosed with hypertension have a 3-fold higher risk of major adverse kidney events. Even children without pre-existing CKD are at risk. Children and adolescents diagnosed ...
Objective This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to estimate the prevalence of high blood pressure (BP) and ...
BALTIMORE, MD (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A disease that claims the lives of millions of people each year is now targeting children. "I was in school and i had passed out in the hallway," Jessica Corser ...
A new study finds that giving children sugar when they are really young -- even in the womb -- raises their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure later in life. Getty ...
OF IOWA IS PROVIDING SOME INSIGHT INTO THE RISKS OF GESTATIONAL HYPERTENSION. THAT’S HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE DURING PREGNANCY. RESEARCHERS ARE NOW LINKING IT TO AN INCREASED RISK OF SEIZURES IN KIDS.
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