Abstract

ANGULO, Nerkis; BARBELLA SZARVAS, Sobeida; LOPEZ, María  and  CASTRO DE KOLSTER, Cruz. Corporal mass index, Dislipidemics and Hyperglicemya as cardiovascular risk factors in obese children. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2009, vol.7, n.1, pp.1-8. ISSN 1690-3293.

Corporal mass index. Dislipidemics and hyperglicemia as cardiovascular risk factors in obese children. Children obesity is accepted as a Public Health problem, it can remain and be associated with Diabetes Mellitus type 2, arterial hypertension and heart diseases. Our purpose was to assess the relation between Corporal Mass Index, hyperglicemia and dislipidemia as cardiovascular risks. A retrospective, cross sectional and descriptive survey was performed, among 64 obese patients attending the nutritioinal consultancy in " Jorge Lizarraga Hospital" Valencia, Carabobo State, during 2006. Inclusion criteria were: age between 6 months and 15 years, both sexes, Corporal Mass Index(CMI), above 95 percentile, exogen obesity reported in Medical Histoty. Laboratory tests:fast glicemia, total serum cholesterol and tryglicerids. Socio economic evaluation(through Graffar standards) . Statistical analysis included.absolute frequency percentages, Z tests, Chisquare, Fisher X2 test and Pearson's correlation coefficient. Statistical significance was p<0.05. Results: 81.2 % (p<0.001) were elementary school children or teenagers. 57.8% were male children. 75% were considered in Graffar III, IV and V standards. 35.9% (p<0.001) had hypercholesteroemia and 62.5 (p<0.001) , hypertrigliceridemia, affecting mainly male children. 6.2% reported hyperglicemia. No correlation between IMC and biochemical values was observed. Concluding. The age of patients most commonly observed, indicates that parents and physicians acquire a late view of the problem. Dislipidemia's frequency increases with age. A coexistence of the so-called "poverty obesity" was also assessed. IMC and dislipidemics specially hypertrigliceridemia might be proper indicators of cardiovascular risk.

Keywords : Child obesity; Corporal Mass Index; dislipidemia; hyperglicemia.

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