Hypertension in College Linked to CHD Deaths in Midlife

Guess which kids are more likely to get high blood pressure.

Young men with prehypertension or hypertension during their college years--half a century ago--were significantly more likely to die of coronary heart disease than their normotensive counterparts, a new analysis shows...

They point out that the lack of clinical-trial evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of BP lowering in younger adults is even more pressing now, given the rising levels of hypertension and obesity in childhood and adolescence.

Fat ones.

Kudos, fat kids.