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email article Children who underwent surgery for congenital heart disease (CHD) were at much higher risk of developing hypertension in the long term compared with healthy controls, a retrospective cohort study showed. The incidence of hypertension was 141.3 per 10,000 person-years after CHD surgery and just 11.1 per 10,000 person-years in matched children without CHD, according to Chirag Parikh, MD, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and colleagues. Ultimately, 12.4% versus 1.1% of these groups developed high blood pressure (BP) over a median 9.8 years of follow-up, the investigators reported in their study online in The increased incidence of hypertension is especially significant because hypertension may be a harbinger of adverse cardiovascular outcomes later in adulthood, as seen in earlier research, Parikh s group said. The findings suggest that interventions aimed at reducing the long-term risk of hypertension after cardiac surgery in this population ar

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