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Blood pressure trends among children

Posted on October 04, 2008

High blood pressure among our children Working in an urgent care facility, I see every single age group and demographic every single time I work. But I am getting very bothered by the number of children whose blood pressure is alarmingly high! I mean like 152/96 and 146/94. That is no joke high!! What will happen to these children if there are no changes made?And I know that this is not very clinical and exactly factual, but most of these kids are overweight. Before you write a comment saying that I shouldn t make generalizations, remember that I said it was a very broad statement and obs...

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