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Heart Disease Prevention in Childhood NEW YORK (Reuters Health)
- Baby's first steps are a big day for parents, and a
development milestone marked by pediatricians. A new report
suggests that parents and doctors need to recognize another
important set of steps during childhood: steps taken to prevent
the number one killer, heart disease. Teenagers and young adults
who smoke, have high cholesterol, high blood pressure or are
overweight are already at risk for fatty plaque deposits in
their arteries, researchers note in the July 25th issue of
Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Such
fatty deposits increase a person's risk of having a heart
attack. ``Our study indicates that hardening of the arteries
starts in childhood and risk factors accelerate it in
adolescence,'' according to study co-author Dr. Henry C. McGill,
Jr., of the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Researc