Circulation, Vol 89, 923-930, Copyright © 1994 by American Heart Association
JH Moller, KA Taubert, HD Allen, EB Clark and RM Lauer
More than 600,000 children in the United States have a congenital or
acquired cardiac abnormality, and millions more are at risk of developing
atherosclerotic disease in adulthood, a risk made particularly evident by
the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in the young. There are
barriers to optimum prevention and treatment of these conditions in
children and youth. The AHA's Task Force on Children and Youth has
described these barriers and outlined a series of recommendations and
strategies to meet the challenges they impose. More research is needed, and
research initiatives will be developed at scientific conferences designed
to review critical areas of cardiac development and etiology of disease in
children. Financial support for such research initiatives must be
increased. Educational programs on cardiovascular risk factors will be
extended to children and their families. When these programs are
coordinated with efforts in the community and in schools, they will reduce
the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors. The task force recommends
that various departments and committees of the AHA use their resources for
the benefit of children: for example, by developing more research
initiatives for funding by the AHA or NHLBI and increasing legislative and
regulatory efforts in the areas such as mandatory school health programs
and tobacco advertising. It is hoped that in the next decade, through
research and educational efforts, many advances in the prevention and
treatment of cardiovascular diseases in the young will be realized.
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Cardiovascular health and disease in children: current status. A Special Writing Group from the Task Force on Children and Youth, American Heart Association
American Heart Association, Dallas, TX 75231-4596.
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