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Obesity prevention programs can lower kids’ blood pressure, even if they don’t reduce body fat

Obesity prevention programs can lower kids’ blood pressure, even if they don’t reduce body fat

Even modest elevations in the BP of adolescents, according to recent research, can pose cardiovascular problems later in life.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies of the effect of child obesity intervention programs on blood pressure has found that whether such programs prevented obesity or not, many of them reduced BP in children. It also found that the most effective programs in this regard promoted both healthy eating and physical activity.

The study, one of the first of its kind, «Effect of Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs on BP: A Systematic Review and Meta-Ana...

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