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Article: High Blood Pressure In Kids Linked To Adult Hypertension
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 17, 2008
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The American Heart Association issued the following news release:
Higher blood pressure in childhood is associated with higher blood pressure in adulthood, according to the most comprehensive study ever conducted on blood pressure tracking published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers examined data from 50 studies, done over four decades in different countries, population groups, ages and durations. These studies provided approximately 600 data points (tracking correlation coefficients) for systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively, which were used for analysis in this new study.
"Our meta-analysis reinforces the concept that blood pressure ...