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High blood pressure: who is at risk and why UK children are getting it

Why it is so dangerous, how it is diagnosed and how to help prevent itHigh blood pressure was long considered a health problem of middle age, but rates are increasing in children and adolescents, with doctors reporting a surge in strokes among people of working age....

Call for routine high blood pressure testing of UK children as cases almost double

Exclusive: Identifying teenagers at risk could help prevent organ damage, strokes and heart attacks in early adulthood, doctors sayLeading doctors have called for a national UK programme to monitor schoolchildren for high blood pressure amid concerns that rising rates...