Doctors at Great Ormond Street have reported that obese children are developing dangerously high blood pressure and cholesterol levels normally found in 50-year-olds. Patients as young as eight are being referred to them with conditions so severe they risk early heart disease or strokes. Great Ormond Street, UCL Institute of Child Health and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have launched a project, called Promise, which is the largest ever research programme into childhood obesity. Evening Standard, March 23, 2011