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OLD GREENWICH, CONN. -- Hypertension is common in obese children and teenagers--and it starts early, Dr. Mala Puri reported at a meeting of the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research.
She and her colleagues at the Montefiore Medical Center, N.Y., found that nearly one-third of a cohort of 167 obese, mostly black and Hispanic adolescents had elevated blood pressure, compared with only 3% in nonobese control subjects in the same community.
As a whole, the study cohort had a mean age of 14 years. The investigators defined hypertension as resting systolic over diastolic blood...
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