Cambodian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery  2012;14(1):72-75

High Blood Pressure in Children and Older Persons

Theng Youdaline

Keywords

High blood pressure; obesity; older persons; children

Country

Cambodia

Language

Khmer

Abstract

The relationship between high blood pressure and other conditions is not only with pregnancy, but also with obesity and older age. Obesity causes an increase in the cardiac output and the blood volume, and in the arterial resistance. Blood pressure increases with age because the arteries harden. An overweight child that has a family history of hypertension is at greater risk of hypertension.