Wade finished five years of study funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario to determine the social situations can lead to children and develop strategies for children to deal with these situations in their daily lives. His work will be part of the first research conference in Canada in Toronto this week presidents.Wade said the interdisciplinary nature of the study helped his team to get a more accurate picture of the problems children may face and the solutions can be implemented to address these situations.

Children in low socio-economic situations are more likely to deal with the types of daily stress that can lead to hypertension at an early age.

Unlike adult hypertension, the condition of children is not defined by blood pressure levels, but is instead calculated as those children who are in the 95 th %ile for ‘.

‘We must be able to talk to people from all disciplines to get a better perspective and a more complete.’

The research team has implemented the program in five schools in the St. Catharines (Ontario) region. They started with a week of youth camp leadership, which taught children in grades 6-8 how to deal with stress. These participants become leaders who bring knowledge to their peers at school.

The intervention program consists of four phases. The first step is to focus on the strengths of children and help raise awareness of these activities. The second step is to teach them to focus on positive emotions, while the third step is to consider how children spend their free time. The final step is to help develop the best strategies, both emotional and instrumental, to manage stress in their daily lives.

But 6.5 per cent to eight per cent of children suffer from high blood pressure could be a cause for concern.

‘We blame the kids to be fat, we blame the children to be inactive, we blame the children do not eat right or family not to feed their children the right,’ says Terrance Wade, Canada Research Chair young and well-being Brock University. ‘But many of these things are not based on individual choice, because your life choices and are forced out of your life chances.’

While other studies have focused on direct physical causes of hypertension in children, such as physical inactivity, Wade says his study is the first of its knowledge in Canada to examine the social factors.

For the first three years of study, Wade and his team sought to determine the prevalence of hypertension in children.

They found that 1.5 % to about four % of children who may be classified as severe hypertension.