"Children who are overweight or obese -- particularly older, non-Hispanic
white girls -- are more likely to have a neurological disorder known as
idiopathic intracranial
hypertension, a rare condition that can result in blindness, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published in The
Journal of Pediatrics," according to a post on
Medical News Today. "In a cross-sectional, population-based study of 900,000 children ages
2-19 years old, researchers found 78 cases of pediatric idiopathic
intracranial hypertension. The condition occurred most frequently in
overweight or obese, non-Hispanic white teenage girls - 85 percent of
the children with IIH were girls 11-19, nearly half were non-Hispanic
white, and 73 percent were overweight or obese."
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