Children's Health & Fitness ? Heart Risk For Obese Children

July 25th, 2012 by Len Saunders

From Education Review?.

Obese children aged under 12 found to have heart disease risk factors such high levels of cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure

Almost two out of three severely obese children under the age of 12 have at least one risk factor for heart disease such as high blood pressure or high blood sugar, researchers say.

Dutch researchers have found that 62 per cent of very obese children aged 12 or younger have one or more of the risk factors.

The study, published online in Archives Of Disease In Childhood, examined 255 severely obese children aged between two and 18.

Overall, 67 per cent of the children had at least one risk factor for heart disease.

Almost one in five severely obese children had at least two risk factors, and eight per cent were found to have three.

The most common risk factor was hypertension ? or high blood pressure ? which was present in 56 per cent of the children.

More than half had low levels of ?good? cholesterol, while 14 per cent of the overweight children had high blood sugar. Just under one per cent already had type 2 diabetes.

The authors, from VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam, based their findings on data supplied by paediatricians to the Dutch Paediatric Surveillance Unit between 2005 and 2007.

The authors found that younger boys were more often severely obese compared to older boys, while they found the reverse for girls.

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