Beverage choices made in childhood showed up in blood pressure readings decades later, according to a study that followed more than 25,000 people from roughly age 12 into their mid-30s.
Participants who drank two or more 12-ounce sugar-sweetened beverages a day had a 52% higher risk of developing high blood pressure as adults than those who drank fewer than three per week, according to the American Heart Association, which published the research in its journal Circulation.
