Just like adults, children can have high blood pressure. The only path to learn is to check for it, and it’s important because children with hypertension will develop up to be adults with heart disease — the main killer of adults in Kentucky. And in the biggest risk factor for heart disease, obesity, Kentucky high-school students will be the third probably in the U.S. Dr. Donna Grigsby, key of general pediatrics at UK HealthCare. Untreated hypertension in adults can result in heart disease, heart failure, vision reduction, kidney, and stroke disease.
Recent research in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension suggests kids with hypertension are in a higher risk of heart disease as adults. In addition, it discovered that 19% of the children with high blood circulation pressure based on the new guidelines acquired an enlarged center (remaining ventricular hypertrophy, or LVH) as adults. A possible pitfall in the study was that of the children in this study come from one community: Bogalusa, Louisiana, just across the Pearl River from Mississippi, a town of 12,000 with a 57% white and 41% populace.
Also, the study used no information about real heart attacks and stroke. Metabolic syndrome is several risk factors that raise someone’s risk for heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. They include high blood circulation pressure, excess fat round the waist, high blood-sugar levels, high triglyceride levels, and low levels of good cholesterol, or HDL. Having any three of these risk factors produces a diagnosis of metabolic syndrome.
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