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Heart disease in children: think heart disease and atherosclerosis and you think about middle-aged or elderly men and women. Now look at your 12-year-old. There's a pretty good chance she's already got fatty streaks in her aorta, the body's main artery, an early sign of atherosclerosis. She may also have high cholesterol.(Ages & Stages)
National Women's Health Report
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February 1, 2004
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In fact, up to one-third of American children, from age two through the teenage years, have high cholesterol. Compared with their counterparts in many other countries, American children and adolescents also have higher blood cholesterol levels and higher intakes of saturated fatty acids and cholesterol. (18) Young children, even babies, can also have high blood pressure. (19)
So in the summer of 2002, the American Heart Association began recommending that health care professionals start measuring children's blood pressure at age three and blood cholesterol at age ...
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