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Editorial
. 2011 Nov;58(5):754-5.
doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.180430. Epub 2011 Oct 3.

Childhood obesity and blood pressure: back to the future?

Bonita Falkner, Samuel Gidding
Editorial

Childhood obesity and blood pressure: back to the future?

Bonita Falkner et al. Hypertension. 2011 Nov.
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The figure is reproduced from Lauer and Clark and depicts the risk in males for high BP in young adulthood (y axis) versus childhood systolic BP percentile (dashed regression line), childhood diastolic BP (dotted line), and Quetelet index percentile (solid line). There is a four fold increase in risk for high BP in young adulthood as childhood Quetelet index exceeds the 85th percentile. Similar results were depicted for females (not shown).
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