From The Dromore Leader?..
?Two thirds of obese children show early signs of heart disease?, the Daily Telegraph has reported.
The news is based on a study that examined how common risk factors for diseases that can affect the heart and the blood vessels (cardiovascular disease or ?CVD?) are in severely obese children. There is no internationally agreed consensus on what constitutes severe obesity in children.
The researchers found that a majority of children identified had risk factors for CVD that you would normally only expect to see in older adults, such as:
? over half (56%) had high blood pressure
? around one in seven had high blood glucose levels
Worryingly, researchers found that when specifically looking at those younger than 12 years, 62% already had more than one CVD risk factor.
These types of risk factors do not usually cause any noticeable symptoms in children but they significantly increase the chance of a child developing a serious disease, such as coronary heart disease in later life.
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