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1/11/2011

New research reveals that, in addition to other familial and environmental risk factors, parental smoking is an independent risk factor for higher blood pressure in healthy preschool children. Even after correcting for other factors, children of parents who smoke were 21 percent more likely to have a systolic blood pressure in the top 15 percent of the population.