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Article: Low intake of folic acid/biotin by South African children related to development.
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- Clinical Trials Week
- Article date:
- April 14, 2003
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2003 APR 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Low intake of folic acid and biotin by black South African children may be related to development of hypertension.
"Although clinical hypertension occurs less frequently in children than in adults, ample evidence supports the concept that the roots of essential hypertension extend back to childhood.
"Since little is available in the literature on causal dietary factors of hypertension in children, this study hypothesized that certain dietary factors can be identified as risk markers that might contribute to the etiology of hypertension in black children. Children aged 10-15 years were randomly selected from 30 ...