1 in 5 Young Adults Has High Blood Pressure

[Hoofbite]

Haven't had a chance to look at the source but interesting that rates were way higher than expected.

Harris and her team have been following more than 14,000 kids since 1995, in an effort to catalog their health from adolesence to adulthood. At their most recent check-in in 2008, she says, is when they discovered the very high rates of hypertension and found that close to 37% were obese.

This part is a little wordy but I think that 37% of the entire study were classified as "obese".

I'd really like to check out the source article but can only find it on a subscription site right now. Can't find a free source.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I just got checked out last Saturday when I donated blood. They said I checked out great!

 

[VietCowboy]

my bp is great too. I have elevated cholesterol though, but it is due to high HDL, which is actually cardioprotective.

 

[Rynie]

I have had high blood pressure ONCE, but I think it was stress. My cholestrol is a little HIGH...









...but that's just because I eat fast food everyday.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Ban chocolate milk

 

[Sarge]

110 over 70 ever since I can remember.

 

[Yeagermeister]

110 over 70 ever since I can remember.

Is that your blood alcohol count?

 

[lane]

110 over 70 ever since I can remember.

beer does thin the blood..

 

[Yeagermeister]

beer does thin the blood..

Sarge has blood in his beer stream

 

[burmafrd]

Well that pretty much figures with all the fatties out there now. Go by any elementary school or middle school and you will see maybe as many as one third of them are fat. I remember in school we usually had at most one fat kid in any class.