title: [Association between adiposity and cardiovascular risk factors in prepubertal children].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the relationships between of four measures of adiposity, namely waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI), and subscapular and abdominal skinfolds, with different cardiovascular risk factors in prepubertal children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Four hundred and ninety-four prepubertal children aged 6-10 years participated in this cross-sectional study. The subscapular and abdominal skinfolds, WC, and BMI were measured to assess adiposity, and cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) were assessed by measuring systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressures (DBP), glucose, triglycerides (TG), and high density (HDL-C) and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). Dichotomous variables were created based on whether or not the subjects were in the upper quartile (Q4) for the WC, BMI, and skinfold variables.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No CVRF was found in 52.8% of children, 33.4% had one factor, and 10.9% and 2.8% had 2 and 3 factors respectively. An adjusted logistic regression analysis showed that being in Q4 of anthropometric variables and CVRFs was associated to TG levels ≥ 100 mg/dL. Glucose levels ≥ 96 mg/dL were associated to Q4 and abdominal fold. Presence of 2 or more CVRFs was significantly associated to Q4 in all anthropometric variables despite adjustment for age, gender, and calorie intake. The subscapular skinfold was the adiposity marker associated to the highest risk.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Children with a more unfavorable adiposity profile tend to have a greater cardiovascular risk in the prepubertal stage.
authors.affiliation: Grupo de Nutrición, Departamento de Ciencias Fisiológicas, Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, San Fernando, Cali, Colombia. robin640@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Robinson
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ramírez-Vélez
authors.forename: Milton Fabian
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Suaréz-Ortegón
authors.forename: Ana Cecilia
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Aguilar de Plata
mesh_terms: D050154:Adiposity; D000293:Adolescent; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors