The new study, published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health has brought together data from around the world to understand how common high blood pressure is in children and teenagers. The research was led by Professor Igor Rudan during his sabbatical at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.
The study was completed in collaboration with Dr Peige Song, now working at Zhejiang University in China, and colleagues from the University of Oxford including Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh, Head of NDPCHS, and Professor Kazem Rahimi from the Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health. The research continues the work of the Global Health Epidemiology Research Group (GHERG) which Professor Rudan founded at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh in 2013 to support international research on major global child-health issues.
For the new research, the team analysed 96 studies that included more than 443,000 young people aged 0–19 years from many different countries, making this one of the largest and most detailed studies ever carried out on childhood blood pressure.
Read the full story on the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences website.