Search Tag: Children

2025 14 Nov

The global prevalence of high blood pressure among children and adolescents nearly doubled between 2000 and 2020, according to a new meta-analysis published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health .   In 2000, an estimated 3.2% of children had hypertension. By 2020, that figure had risen to more than 6.2% among those under 19, affecting roughly...Read more

2019 21 Oct

Familial hypercholesterolaemia is typically characterised by severely elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels and premature cardiovascular disease. While the short-term efficacy of statin therapy in children is well established, there is still a lack of longer follow-up studies to evaluate specific changes in the risk of cardiovascular...Read more

2013 12 Dec

With heart failure being a significant cause of childhood health conditions and death, new guidelines have been issued in order to assist healthcare providers both in the emergency departments and primary care to identify and treat heart failure in children with undiagnosed heart disease and symptoms of possible heart failure. Developed by...Read more