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...haven't been performing for 15 to 20 years, but it was one of the best-kept secrets in most communities," says House Democrat George Miller of California, who helped write No Child. The smartest thing the law does is to require schools to separate out the scores of at-risk children instead of lumping all kids together for a sunnier average...
...screen and far from the limelight, Pinkett-Smith and her husband have quietly established The Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith Family Foundation, which serves at-risk and underprivileged American and South African families...
...Drug companies are rolling out new medications to join the arsenal of blood-pressure drugs already on the shelves. Physicians are routinely checking pressure in younger and younger patients. Public-health officials are launching new information campaigns, trying to raise public awareness in the hope of getting to the at-risk population before it's too late. Such large-scale mobilization may be the only way to get the problem back in check. "There's good evidence hypertension can be controlled," says Dr. Darwin Labarthe, acting chief of cardiovascular health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
With that surprising exception, the basic health issues associated with hypertension have not changed. What's new is how deep the pool of at-risk people has become and how serious the danger for them is. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) estimates that of 65 million hypertensive Americans, nearly 20 million are not aware they have the condition. Worse, the 65 million figure is just an estimate of the vulnerable population, and that population is a constantly moving target. Every time the nation's obesity needle ticks upward, the number of hypertensive Americans does...
...newest and most surprising at-risk population, however, is the kids, a group in which hypertension, until recently, could not even be uniformly diagnosed. Optimum blood pressure changes with age and body size, and what's right for an adult is wrong for a preteen, to say nothing of a baby. A 2-year-old girl in the 50th percentile for height may have an average blood pressure of just 88/45. That same girl at age 10 should be up to 102/60, still far below the traditional adult benchmark of 120/80. The NHLBI now recommends making blood-pressure readings...