title: [Childhhood obesity, insulin resistance and increased cardiovascular risk].
abstract: Excess fat is one of the major risk factors for insulin resistance predisposing to the development of cardiovascular diseases in western countries. We know that obese patients are strongly at risk of cardiovascular diseases, like myocardial infarction or stroke. These diseases are the most frequent cause of death in the adult population, representing a social and economic problem. Today there are not available and useful markers for screening and diagnosis of insulin- resistance in young people. "Easy-to-detect" clinical markers must be found to identify young subjects at risk of cardiovascular diseases. Very interesting the relationship between wrist circumference, its bone composition and insulin resistance.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina Interna e Specialità Mediche, UOC di Diabetologia, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00161 Roma.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carlone
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Venditti
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cipolloni
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zampetti
authors.forename: Marialuisa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Spoletini
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Capizzi
authors.forename: Gaetano
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Leto
authors.forename: Raffaella
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Buzzetti
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007333:Insulin Resistance; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications* / Q000378:metabolism*; D012307:Risk Factors