High Bp Epidemic in Children.

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Click here to print 22/08/07 - Health section Doctors warn of high blood pressure epidemic in children Thousands of British youngsters may be suffering from undetected high blood pressure, doctors have warned. They said it went hand in hand with the obesity epidemic that is blighting the lives of many children and teenagers. Poor diets, salty foods and a lack of exercise was blamed for the changes. Professor Bryan Williams, from Leicester University and a past president of the British Hypertension Society, said: "We have probably seen a doubling of high blood pressure in the young over the past 20 yeras." He said lifestyle changes were building up serious health problems. If left

untreated, high blood pressure can quietly damage the organs, especially the kidneys. His warning follows a U.S study which estimates that as many as one in 20 of American teenagers may suffer from high-blood pressure. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland examined more than 14,000 young people aged 3 to 18 and found 507 cases of hypertension. Nearly three quarters of that group, or 376 cases, had not been diagnosed despite at least three previous medical checkups. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. They suggested that electronic medical recordkeeping could be upgraded to better diagnose the problem by comparing the findings of earlier checkups, even though juvenile hypertension is difficult to confirm because it varies by sex, height and weight. Blood pressure is seldom measured in children in the UK and what is classed as 'risk level' is still contentious. However a recent

study found that almost one in four of young British men have a sytolic blood pressure above 140mm of mercury, the cut-off point for adult hypertension. Professor Francesco Cappucio from Warwick University said the study indicated many of today's teenagers could need multi-drug treatment (this is a new medical opportunity!!) by the age of 40 as a result. "Twenty years ago 50 was the age of risk of the effects to being to show," he said. "Now it's 25 to 30. We are moving down the age band in seeing the health effects." Find this story at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=477030 & in_page_id=1774©2007 Associated New Media "In conclusion, vaccines are a perfect manifestation of everything that is satanic. They represent an adulterous and arrogant tampering with divine creation, based on the intellectual conceit of "perfecting"

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