RESEARCH ARTICLE
CONGRESS COVERAGE: Obese Children have a Quadrupled Risk of Becoming Hypertensive Adults in Comparison to Children with Normal Weight
Emmanuel S. Ganotakis1, Aikaterini2 Papagianni2, Vasilios G. Athyros3, *
1 Department of Internal Medicine, Heraklion Medical School, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece
2 Department of Nephrology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration Hospital, Thessaloniki,
Greece
3 Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration Hospital,
Thessaloniki, Greece
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2013Volume: 5
First Page: 43
Last Page: 44
Publisher Id: TOHYPERJ-5-43
DOI: 10.2174/1876526201305010043
Article History:
Received Date: 25/09/2013Acceptance Date: 25/09/2013
Electronic publication date: 14/11/2013
Collection year: 2013
© 2013 Ganotakis et al.
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open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords: Childhood, obesity, overweight, adulthood, arterial hypertension, treatment options.
