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High Blood Pressure In Children
High Blood Pressure in Children
High blood pressure goes hand-in-hand with obesity. As obesity increases among children in the United States, so does high blood pressure.
It is more difficult to diagnose high blood pressure in children due to a changing definition of "normal" as children grow. A recent study evaluated over 15,000 children and adolescents from 3 to 18 years of age for seven years. Approximately one in every 14 children was diagnosed with elevated blood pressure (both hypertension and pre-hypertension). O...
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Expert & Community Posts
Time to Have Kids Tested, Carefully, for Hypertension
By Craig Stoltz , Health Expert...sex, height, and weight. The potential danger of high blood pressure in children should not be... Read more »
Rising Blood Pressure at Younger Age
By Craig Stoltz , Health Expert...factors. See this previous SharePost about measuring high blood pressure in children for more... Read more »
Avoiding High Blood Pressure
By Heather Reese , Health Expert...to the eyes and the kidneys and anyone, including children, can develop this condition. It is... Read more »
Whole Grains Linked to Reduced Risk of Hypertension
By Craig Stoltz , Health Expert...It's not known whether these findings apply to men, children and younger women. So what are... Read more »
Pediatric Hypertension Explained
By Alvin Hopkinson , Health Expert...hypertension has greatly increased recently. Each year more children are being diagnosed with... Read more »
Health Guide
Avoiding High Blood Pressure
...States. High blood pressure can also cause damage to the eyes and the kidneys and anyone, including children, can develop this condition. It is often called the silent killer because its... Read more »Malignant hypertension (arteriolar nephrosclerosis)
...risk factors The disorder affects about 1% of people with high blood pressure, including both children and adults. It is more common in younger adults, especially African American men. It... Read more »Acute nephritic syndrome
...blood pressure may resolve in a week or two, while urine tests take months to return to normal. Children tend to do better than adults and usually recover completely. Only rarely do they... Read more »Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease
...lupus, or as a complication of leukemia, lymphoma, or chemotherapy. The disorder is most common among children and young adults.As the disease gets worse, it causes narrowed pulmonary veins,... Read more »High Blood Pressure: Risk Factors
...rates from hypertension are higher in women than in men. Hypertension is also becoming more common in children and teenagers.EthnicityCompared to Caucasians, African Americans have 1.8 times the... Read more »Images
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Medications
...blood pressure (hypertension) in adults and in children 6 years of age and older. It works... Read more »
...high blood pressure (hypertension) in adults and children. It works by relaxing blood vessels,... Read more »
...blood pressure (hypertension) in adults and in children 6 years of age and older. It works... Read more »
...your medical condition and response to therapy. In children, doses greater than 6 milligrams per... Read more »
...your medical condition and response to therapy. In children, the dosage is also based on body... Read more »
Related News
Weight Gain Predicts Blood Pressure
September 15, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Growing like a weed may put babies at risk for high blood pressure in adulthood. Weight gain between birth and five months and... Read summary »
Hypertension Traced to Childhood
June 20, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) Researchers believe high blood pressure can be traced back to a person's childhood. Analyses of blood pressure tracking studies... Read summary »
High blood pressure linked to ADHD, learning disabilities
May 07, 2009Researchers say children who have high blood pressure are four times more likely to have ADHD and learning difficulties than their healthy peers. The... Read summary »
Saving Childrens Hearts
July 02, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A drug used to treat high blood pressure may also help children with enlarged hearts due to Marfan syndrome. Marfan syndrome is... Read summary »
Body Building Supplement Could Take Breath Away
April 16, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- An antioxidant contained in nutritional supplements often used by body builders has been linked to a serious respiratory... Read summary »
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