Hospitalizations for pediatric hypertension increase in U.S.
The number of children hospitalized for hypertension in the U.S. almost doubled from 12,661 in 1997 to 24,602 in 2006, according to a study in the journal Hypertension. Researchers noted that children with hypertension had hospital stays almost twice as long as those without the condition

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