Hypertension Start Staking Young Age

High blood pressure or hypertension was started stalking age children and adolescents. Changes in diet is considered to be one of the causes of child starts developing hypertension.
"Hypertension is beginning to be found at a young age, but not to worry," said Director General of Disease Control and Environmental Health Ministry of Health, Tjandra Yoga Aditama on World Health Day, Thursday (04/04/2013), in Jakarta.
Tjandra explained, consumption of junk food and fast food with sugar content and high salt triggered cases of hypertension at an early age. Number of patients with hypertension children in Indonesia so far can not be known with certainty.
High blood pressure at an early age can have serious repercussions on the process of learning and child development. High blood pressure is a risk factor for the onset of obesity. When a child is overweight, motion and activity to be limited.

As a result, children tend to be lazy to learn and move. Children are seldom move will foster cholesterol within the blood vessels. As a result, blood cholesterol levels will be higher and the effect on increasing blood pressure.
If unhealthy eating patterns continue, the blood pressure increase. It can be more severe if the condition is not diagnosed and treated hypertension. This condition opens the door for non-communicable diseases (PTM) such as heart failure and stroke. The heart and the brain is the main target organ hypertension.
Based on the Task Force recommendations Indonesian Pediatric Association (IDAI), hypertension in children is a condition when the systolic blood pressure or diastolic and mean are the same as the 95 percentile of the age-and sex, who performed at least three times of measurement.
Classification of hypertension based on rank is mild hypertension, when blood pressure both systolic and diastolic is 10 mmHg above the 95th percentile (specifically teenagers 150/100-159/109 mmHg). Moderate hypertension, when blood pressure both systolic and diastolic greater than 20 mmHg above the 95th percentile (special juvenile greater than 160/110 mmHg).
Pressure that is too high causes the heart fails to pump blood throughout the body. As a result, heart failure. This failure inhibits the intake of oxygen and nutrients to the brain resulting in a stroke.
This is certainly a serious threat to the future of the nation depends on the quality of the young generation. Moreover, reports the World Health Organization (WHO) states, in hypertensive adults to 51 percent of the causes of death due to stroke, and 45 percent of deaths due to coronary heart disease.