Cardiovascular risk factors and noninvasive assessment of arterial structure and function in obese Turkish children.
Obesity is associated with a number of risk factors, such as hyperlipidemia, hyperinsulinemia, hypertension, and early atherosclerosis. Evidence indicates that atherosclerosis begins in childhood and progresses over decades. In this work, we examined the relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and ultrasonographic signs of subclinical atherosclerosis in 77 obese children and adolescents compared to 40 non-obese healthy peers. Carotis intima media thickness (cIMT), carotid artery compliance (CAC), brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation (FMD), and established cardiovascular risk factors were studied. In the obese patients, cIMT was significantly increased (0.57 mm vs 0.45 mm, p < 0.001) whereas CAC (1.84% vs 3.29%, p < 0.001) and FMD (9.67 % vs 14.81%, p < 0.001) were significantly decreased. In multiple linear regression analysis, a relation was observed between cIMT, CAC, brachial FMD on one hand, and body mass index (BMI) on the other. Among the lipid anomalies, only hypertriglyceridemia was found to be positively correlated with cIMT. Additionally, we found a significant association between waist circumference (WC) and FMD. These findings indicate that obesity in children is associated with arterial wall alterations and endothelial dysfunction. In hyperlipidemic situations, only hypertriglyceridemia was found to be positively correlated with cIMT. This finding has consistently indicated TG to be a risk factor for the development of atherosclerosis. To our knowledge this is the first study to determine the relation between FMD and WC, which is used as a parameter of obesity in childhood.
Yilmazer
Murat Muhtar
MM
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Izmir Dr. Behcet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir, Turkey. drmuratmuhtar@hotmail.com
Tavli
Vedide
V
Carti
Ozgür Umaç
OU
Mese
Timur
T
Güven
Bariş
B
Aydin
Banu
B
Devrim
Ilker
I
Tavli
Talat
T
D000293:Adolescent; D050197:Atherosclerosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001916:Brachial Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D002339:Carotid Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015228:Hypertriglyceridemia / Q000503:physiopathology; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D017539:Tunica Intima / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology; D014463:Ultrasonography
D015415:Biomarkers
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