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Childhood obesity and hypertension

Childhood obesity and hypertension

Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 18/01/2023

The hypertension may begin in the first years of life, for the risk that obese children have hypertension quadruples compared to normal weight children. So it has proved a study presented at the scientific sessions of the conference on hypertension that is celebrating the American Heart Association (AHA ).

Specifically, the study has followed growth and blood pressure of 1,117 children for 27 years. Now those children have hypertension 6% of those who had a normal weight, 14% of those who had in his childhood overweight and 26 % of those who were suffering obesity.

The relationship between childhood obesity and because hypertension is clear. As Dr. Sara E. Watson, author of the study, pointed out:“ is important for pediatricians to counsel their patients about the risk of hypertension associated with overweight, obesity and stress, and that a healthy diet&ndash, including the reduction of salt intake and exercise- can help reduce this risk&rdquo ,.

Consequences of hypertension

In this same line has commented Dr. Empar Lurbe, who heads a research group on the consequences of childhood obesity in the Network Research Center of Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition ( CIBERobn ). Lurbe also warned that“ hypertension has a number of implications, both in terms of the blood vessels and at the level of the heart or kidney level&rdquo ,.

Lurbe has also pointed out that"hypertension is considered when the child has continued review of systolic blood pressure and / or diastolic pressure above the 95th percentile in relation to sex, age and height" ;.

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