A new research has found that hypertension was more common among overweight or obese children and those undergoing puberty.

Authors report the overall proportion of childhood hypertension was 4%. How common hypertension was also varied when measured by different devices.
A limitation of this analysis was variation in reported prevalence among included studies. Authors: Yajie Zhu, Ph.D., University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and coauthors (doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.3310)
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