date:Jul 31, 2018
ve Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol Medical School in the United Kingdom.
Researchers used data on several thousand healthy 17-year-olds and 21-year-olds who have participated in the ongoing Children of the 90s study (also known as the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children) since they were born in the Bristol area of the United Kingdom.
The researchers' findings suggest that higher BMI:
caused higher systolic (top number) and diastolic (bottom number) blood pressure; a