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Will our high blood pressure be passed down to the child?
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Yes: A child can inherit the predisposition for high blood pressure, but the environment can help decrease the incidence of it showing up. Help your child to eat healthy to maintain normal weight and to decrease salt intake.
Answered 2/8/2017
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Yes & no: Hypertension is a condition that has both hereditary and environmental causes.The lines can blur, so a heavy family passes on its poor feeding & exercise patterns bringing greater blood pressure problems for all. Baseline essential hbp frequency is 50% at 50 & 70% at 70, so if you live long enough it will catch up with you.Some conditions do have directly inherited hbp as a feature (nephritis).
Answered 12/11/2012
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