May 04 2024

Children with high blood pressure face long-term risk for cardiovascular disease

TORONTO — Children with high blood pressure are more likely to be at risk for a stroke, heart attack or other major cardiac event later in life, according to research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.
High blood pressure affects 6% of children and is often unrecognized, according to Cal Robinson, MD, a pediatric nephrology fellow and PhD student at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and colleagues.
Robinson told Healio that the goal of the study was to better understand the long-term risks that children with high blood pressure will face.
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