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Article: Heart Association: Kids' high blood pressure tied to obesity
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- Call & Post
- Article date:
- September 26, 2007
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After decades of decline, blood pressure levels in children and adolescents are increasing, according to an analysis of national health surveys published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
In a finding that links blood pressure increases to the recent jump in childhood obesity, researchers said each one centimeter increase in waist circumference raised the likelihood of high blood pressure (HBP) by 10 percent and the likelihood of pre-high blood pressure by 5 percent.
The researchers also found a surprising rise in the prevalence of those two conditions among young Mexican-American males, although data on that group only went back to 1982 and will require further ...