All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 December Your risk of developing high blood pressure may start before youre born Your risk of developing high blood pressure may start before you're born 03/12/2021 | 2 MINS Researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology and RPH Research Foundation, in partnership with the Raine Study, have discovered a link between in-utero testosterone exposure and the risk of developing high blood pressure (hypertension) as a young adult. Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Chi Le-Ha, from LITΓÇÖs Medical school, was the lead investigator on the study which has been published in the prestigious journal Hypertension 1. The study showed young adults who had higher testosterone levels in their umbilical cord blood at birth tended to have high blood pressure by 20 to 27 years of age. Dr Le-Ha said the findings could be used to help prevent hypertension ΓÇô a chronic condition that affects one in three adult Australians and is the number one cause of preventable death worldwide (10 million lives are lost to hypertension each year). ΓÇ£When it comes to pre
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 December Your risk of developing high blood pressure may start before youre born Your risk of developing high blood pressure may start before you're born 03/12/2021 | 2 MINS Researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology and RPH Research Foundation, in partnership with the Raine Study, have discovered a link between in-utero testosterone exposure and the risk of developing high blood pressure (hypertension) as a young adult.
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Chi Le-Ha, from LITΓÇÖs Medical school, was the lead investigator on the study which has been published in the prestigious journal Hypertension 1.
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The study showed young adults who had higher testosterone levels in their umbilical cord blood at birth tended to have high blood pressure by 20 to 27 years of age.
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Dr Le-Ha said the findings could be used to help prevent hypertension ΓÇô a chronic condition that affects one in three adult Australians and is the number one cause of preventable death worldwide (10 million lives are lost to hypertension each year).
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