Checking your blood pressure at home or a local pharmacy can be an effective way to stay proactive about your heart health. However, when you're not receiving readings in the presence of a doctor, it ...
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) ...
The rate of high blood pressure (hypertension) in children and adolescents under 19 has nearly doubled, increasing from about 3% in 2000 to over 6% in 2020. More than 9% of children and adolescents ...
An estimated 114 million children have high blood pressure, with childhood obesity rates driving cases of the condition to skyrocket Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has ...
Children with obesity or severe obesity were significantly more likely to have high blood pressure than children with normal weight, based on new data from nearly 1000 children collected at youth ...
Global rates of hypertension, or high blood pressure, in childhood and adolescence have nearly doubled since 2000, putting more kids at risk for poor health later in life. “In 2000, about 3.4% of boys ...