High blood pressure in children cause cognitive impairment

And cases of hypertension in children is caused by a disruption of cognitive function. This disorder is a decreased ability to use knowledge of the pediatric patients compared to children who are old-normal blood pressure to digest. And so the completion of researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), New York, United States, recently announced.

Based on the results of the study, children who suffer from high blood pressure tend to slow growth in the increase in motor activity (ADHD) have. Disrupting the activities of the reasons why children are not uncommon, and tend to excess, is often mistaken to be autistic.

"Although ex post, in addition to these results evidence of a link between high blood pressure with cognitive impairment," said Assistant Professor Heather R. Adams URMC.