Abstract
Nowadays, almost 50% of boys and girls with ages between
5 and 9 years old are overweight or obese. And these children
frequently have one or more comorbidities. Unfortunately, there
is a wrong belief that the great problem of obese children is the
risk of this child to be an obese adult. In fact, there are a lot of
comorbidities that already appears during infancy and, if treated,
probably will not progress to adulthood. We have been studying
some of these comorbidities from the last 5 years. We studied
dyslipidemia and insulin resistance and we found that 69.4% of
the children had high cholesterol, 45.2% high LDL, 54.8% low HDL
and 53.2% high triglycerides [1]. It is consensual that we have a
vicious circle including obesity and insulin resistance [2] and we
evaluated 383 children with ages between 7 and 18 years using
fasting insulinemia and Homa as indicators of insulin resistance.
The prevalence was very high, independently of the method: 33.1%
using fasting insulin > 15 and 37.8% using HOMA> 3.5 [1]. We also
looked at blood pressure and we showed high blood pressure values
among obese children, when compared to eutrophic children [3-5].
We Need To Look At the Comorbidities of #Obesity during Childhood and Adolescence by Carlos Alberto Nogueira-de-Almeida in BJSTR
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