Children with high blood pressure more likely to have learning disabilities

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

Children who have hypertension are much more likely to have learning disabilities than children with normal blood pressure, according to a new University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) study published this week in the journal, Pediatrics. In fact, when variables such as socio-economic levels are evened out, children with hypertension were four times more likely to have cognitive problems.

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