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Chubby Kids At Risk of High Blood Pressure
« on: August 22, 2007, 08:55:32 PM »
As kids and teens grow chubbier, their blood pressure is rising but often going undiagnosed, finds a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

It's a serious oversight, since high blood pressure can quietly damage the organs, especially the kidneys, the researchers note.

High blood pressure, or hypertension, often signals other health problems such as heart disease.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, led by Dr. Matthew Hansen, examined more than 14,000 young people, aged three to 18. They found 507 cases of hypertension; that's about 3.6 per cent of the group.

Nearly three quarters of that group, or 376 cases, had not been diagnosed, despite at least three previous medical checkups.

Extrapolating the results to the U.S. population suggests that 1.5 million U.S. children have undiagnosed high blood pressure, says study author Dr. David Kaelber of Boston Children's Hospital.

"We're really missing a huge percentage of patients with this disease. In fact the overwhelming majority of patients of this disease... we're not detecting it," Kaelber told CTV News.

Juvenile hypertension is thought to be difficult to confirm because it varies by sex, height and weight. But the researchers found that the criteria for pre-hypertension were met by 485 children (3.4 per cent).

"Identification of elevated blood pressure in children meeting prehypertension or hypertension criteria is important because of the increasing prevalence of pediatric weight problems," the researchers wrote.

"If abnormal blood pressure is not identified by a patient's pediatric clinician, it may be years before the abnormal blood pressure is detected, leading to end-organ damage."

source: CTV.ca

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