It was announced yesterday that 40 percent of adolescents are at risk of cardiovascular disease (article in Castilian, La Vanguardia). Being overweight, obese and leading sedentary lifestyles plus heavy consumption of alcohol are some of the lifestyle factors that affect the health of adolescents and adults today in Spain. According to Salvador Zamora Navarro, Professor of Physiology at the University of Murcia who over the last eight years has analysed the health status of 18,000 youngsters aged between 13 and 18 and found that 40 percent of children from the study are at risk of heart disease. The study, "Disminución del Riesgo Cardiovascular en Adolescentes", (Decrease Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescents) revealed that 41 percent of children and 52 percent of girls are sedentary, 25 percent have hypertension (40 percent boys) - these results are compounded by obesity and overweight children that now affects almost 30 percent of youngsters.

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