Objective Obesity is associated with many cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) in childhood.
There is an ongoing discussion whether there is a linear relationship between degree of …

Background Childhood obesity is a world-wide concern due to its growing prevalence and
association with cardiometabolic risk factors in childhood and subsequent adult …

Background: Severely obese children and adolescents are at high risk of suffering obesity-
related comorbidities. This article is to examine the dose-response relationship between …

Obesity tracks from childhood to adulthood most strongly of all cardiometabolic risk factors.
To determine relationship of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) with …

Background: The prevalence of obesity in children has been shown to be plateauing or
decreasing in some countries. However, the burden of severe obesity is often not assessed …

Background The prevalence of severe obesity among children and young adults has
increased over the past decade. Although the prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors is …

Background The ability of different obesity indices to predict cardiovascular risk is still
debated in youth and few data are available in sub Saharan Africa. We compared the …

In adults, overweight is often associated with other cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk
factors. We determined whether these associations were also present in young children …

The study by Lloyd et al. 1 is a timely review of the evidence for an association between
childhood body mass index (BMI) and adult blood pressure, carotid intima media thickness …

Background Obesity in childhood is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. It is
uncertain whether this risk is attenuated in persons who are overweight or obese as children …