Young people with hypertension become adults with hypertension
Confirming that hypertension does not just go away, more research has shown that adolescents who are classified as having either prehypertension (at risk for frank hypertension) or hypertension and who are not treated are more likely to have hypertension when they are adults. In boys, weight is predictive of higher blood pressure, with a higher body mass index and continuing to gain weight associated with higher blood pressure, and a positive family history. In girls, age is more significant, with girls 18 years old having higher blood pressure with a known family history of blood pressure disorder. Knowing youngsters today are undergoing stressful life with bad eating habits and little physical activities are most likely to develop hypertension at much earlier age than recorded earlier
