"Childhood hypertension, determined by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, more than doubles the risk of left ventricular hypertrophy...More nutritional child abuse.
These findings add to growing evidence that childhood blood pressure not only tracks into adulthood but has immediate consequences as well.
Hypertrophy is evidence that end-organ damage has already occurred in childhood, commented William B. White, M.D., of the University of Connecticut in Farmington, who moderated a press conference at which the findings were presented."
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