High blood pressure and obesity are becoming more common around the world, despite efforts to promote healthy habits like weight loss and exercise.
The American Heart Association recently suggested that stiff arteries may be a new risk factor for high blood pressure.
In middle-aged and older adults, stiff arteries are a strong predictor of cardiovascular problems and death. Some studies are underway to see if it’s possible to reverse arterial stiffness.
However, among children and young adults, arterial stiffness is only seen as a marker of heart disease and death that happens later in life, because there isn’t much data on young, healthy people.
We don’t know much about how useful arterial stiffness is as a risk factor for disease in children.
This review article summarizes recent studies that show that arterial stiffness is a new risk factor for high blood pressure, obesity, insulin resistance, abnormal cholesterol levels, and type 2 diabetes.
People often wonder what makes arterial stiffness worse in adolescents.
We know that smoking during pregnancy, smoking during adolescence, eating too much salt, genetics, being overweight, and having high blood pressure from a young age can make arterial stiffness worse in teenagers.
Arterial stiffness in adolescence can lead to high blood pressure and metabolic problems later in life, which can lead to disease and organ damage.
We need to focus on ways to reduce or reverse arterial stiffness in young people, so that they are less likely to get high blood pressure and metabolic diseases when they’re older.
More studies are needed to figure out how to do this.
This study was published in the Journal of Hypertension and was conducted by Andrew Agbaje et al.
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