10% of children have high blood pressure issues
Early indications from the Cork Children’s Lifestyle Study are that overweight or obese children are particularly susceptible — twice as many overweight/obese children had high blood pressure compared to their normal-weight peers.
Dr Janas Harrington, of the department of epidemiology and public health at University College Cork, one of the leading researchers behind the study, said high blood pressure was a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease in adults and children with high blood pressure were also placed at higher risk.
