Strong link between adolescent obesity, high blood pressure

Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - 11:10 in Health & Medicine

Body mass index in healthy adolescents has a statistically significant association with both systolic blood pressures and diastolic blood pressures, research shows, and it highlights the significance of the global trend of rapidly increasing adolescent obesity, experts say.

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