Blood pressure in diabetic kids ’should be watched’
In a study of people with type I diabetes, those with higher blood pressure or hypertension in childhood had higher levels in young adulthood, according to German researchers.
Dr Ina Knerr, from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and colleagues wrote that "we need to focus on the diagnosis of hypertension in children with type I diabetes and to study the efficacy of early intervention".
The research involved following some 868 subjects, seen at 95 Diabetes Centres and Paediatric Care Clinics in Germany and Austria, from aged six until they were almost 20.
Published in medical journal Diabetes Care, the study revealed that that blood pressures above 97 per cent of European reference levels were present in four per cent of the participants during pre-puberty and puberty, and in almost 14 percent of them during post-puberty.
The researchers advised that lowering high blood pressure early in life in these individuals is imperative, as people with diabetes are at a ten-fold higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
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