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Researchers will study 585 teens who have a parent, grandparent

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or both with essential hypertension and/or a heart attack by age 55. They will look for adverse clinical cardiovascular measures, including reduced ability of arteries to dilate; the blood encountering increased resistance as it travels through vessels; higher blood pressure; and an increase in the size of the pumping change of the heart—a result of pumping against elevated pressure.

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