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How can you treat kids with high blood pressure?
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Depends on cause..: While there are good medicines to lower the blood pressure, the most important thing is to figure out why a child is having high blood pressure, and then try to treat that. There are a number of causes ranging to obesity to kidney problems to a tumor.
Answered 8/24/2013
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