Cardiovascular risk factors and childhood obesity.

• Autor(a) principal: Moniz, Marta
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Marques, Tânia, Cabral, Marta, Nizarali, Zahara, Coelho, Raquel, Monteiro, Ana, Bragança, Graciete, Carreiro, Helena
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/1484

Even in pediatric age, obesity is associated to cardiovascular risk factors such as dyslipidemia, high blood pressure and metabolic syndrome, which contribute to increased morbidity and mortality in adulthood.characterize the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in obese children and adolescents followed in pediatric endocrinology.retrospective analysis of cases followed between January 1997 and June 2008, with age between two and eighteen years. Data analyzed included demographic, epidemiological and clinical parameters. BMI z-score, blood pressure, lipid profile and insulinresistance were also studied.We evaluated 886 children with a mean age of 9.4 years (SD ± 3.5), 53.6% female and 60% with android type obesity. The lipid profile was altered in 42.1% of children. Children with dyslipidemia were younger than children without dyslipidemia (9.4 ± 3.33 vs 9.56 ± 3.33, p-0.62) and were predominantly male (55.2% vs 41.1%, p