Children and adolescents diagnosed with high blood pressure have double the risk of major cardiovascular problems as adults, a new study that followed them into their 20s and 30s reports. It’s another ...

The rate of high blood pressure (hypertension) in children and adolescents under 19 has nearly doubled, increasing from about 3% in 2000 to over 6% in 2020. More than 9% of children and ...

An estimated 114 million children have high blood pressure, with childhood obesity rates driving cases of the condition to skyrocket Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has ...

Over the past decade, the number and type of cuffless devices to measure blood pressure, such as smartwatches, rings, patches ...

New research from the American Heart Association (AHA) suggests that parents might want to keep a closer eye on their kids’ blood pressure. About one in seven (14%) of children and teens in the U.S.

Your blood pressure reading probably isn’t as accurate as you think. More often than not, patients and even nurses and ...

Children of mothers with hypertension, diabetes, or obesity had systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings that were 4.88 and 1.90 percentile points higher, respectively, than those of children ...