Medical Consequences Of Childhood Obesity

High Blood Pressure And Cholesterol

Another study has discovered obese and overweight children are at a higher risk of developing high blood pressure. During the study, the researchers from California went through nearly 250,000 health records of children between six and seventeen. They found out individuals who were overweight were twice more likely to develop high blood pressure and have worse cholesterol profiles than kids at an average weight.

Additionally, moderately obese children were four times more likely to contract the condition, while extremely obese youths were ten times as likely to get the same disease. This study was published in the Journal of Clinical Hypertension. Moreover, the study found nearly ten percent of extremely obese children and teenagers already have high blood pressure and about half of them occasionally register blood pressure readings in the higher levels.

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