Despite obesity rise, kids’ blood pressure dipped: U.S. study

June 7th, 2012

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Despite obesity rise, kids’ blood pressure dipped: U.S. study

Reuters – The rate of childhood obesity in the United States may have soared between the 1970s and the 1990s, but children’s blood pressure did not follow the same trend, according to a study. Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that while the obesity rate among children in the state of Louisiana nearly tripled between 1974 and 1993, their blood pressure actually improved a bit. I think the take-home from this study is that we should not necessarily assume that increases in childhood obesity will be associated with changes in every risk factor,” said lead researcher David Freedman of the CDC’s division of nutrition, physical activity and obesity. Read article

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