Heart failure, she said, “is defined as the inability to meet the metabolic demands of the body and the organs,” whereas ...

After analyzing data on nearly 4,000 adults who had their blood pressure recorded in childhood, researchers concluded that the new guidelines would have done a better job at identifying the kids ...

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 ...

High blood pressure isn’t just a problem for grown-ups. Five in 100 children have higher-than-normal blood pressure, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Usually, there is some ...

These complications may be preventable with improved pediatric blood pressure screening and control. These findings should be confirmed by large-scale, well-controlled prospective studies.

"High blood pressure, or hypertension, is often the first sign of cardiovascular disease," says Dr. Tammy Brady, Medical Director of the Pediatric Hypertension Program at Johns Hopkins University.

Devoting more resources to pediatric blood pressure screening and control could lower the risks of long-term heart conditions in children with hypertension. More awareness about the importance of ...

Pediatric blood pressure (BP) screening and the prevalence of hypertension (HTN) increased significantly in Canada after the publication of the 2016 Hypertension Canada and 2017 American Academy ...

Over that time period, the average systolic blood pressure increased from 104.6 to 106 and the average diastolic pressure rose from 58.4 to 61.7, the researchers reported in today's issue of the ...