A Northwestern University study suggests young children with high blood pressure have a sharply increased risk of dying of heart disease by their mid-50s. Photo by Halfpoint/Adobe Stock/HealthDay News ...

An estimated 114 million children have high blood pressure, with childhood obesity rates driving cases of the condition to skyrocket Cases of children with high blood pressure have doubled in the last ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) - Across the globe, high blood pressure in children has nearly doubled over the past two decades. A new study found that back in 2000, rates of hypertension in boys and girls hovered around 3%.