A co-worker I’ve become friendly with spent the weekend in the hospital with off-the-charts high blood pressure ... repeatedly chosen him over her own children. She doesn’t respect our ...

SCHOOL children are consuming so many addictive high-caffeine energy drinks they are “bouncing off the walls” and unteachable ...

Using a blood pressure chart by age can help you interpret your results to see how they compare to the normal ranges across groups and within your own age cohort. Monitoring your blood pressure (BP) ...

We tend to think of high blood pressure as an adult disease, even calling it the “silent killer.” However, studies estimate that between 3-5 percent of children have high blood ...

Children born to mothers with obesity, gestational diabetes mellitus or a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy have higher ...

Results showed that kids born to moms with at least one risk factor had systolic blood pressure that averaged about 4.9 ...

Children born to mothers with obesity, gestational diabetes mellitus or a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy have higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure than children born to mothers without ...

Elevated blood pressure At their first blood pressure reading, children born to mothers with any cardiometabolic risk factor ranked in a higher SBP percentile (4.88 points higher, on average) and ...

Children born to mothers with obesity, gestational diabetes mellitus or a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy have higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure than children born to mothers without ...

The research, published in JAMA Network Open, indicates that children exposed to at least one of these risks had higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and their blood pressure increased more ...