The stability of cardiometabolic risk factors clustering in children and adolescents: a 2-year longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The present study aims to verify the odds of remaining with the clustering of 3 or more, 4 or more, and 5 or more risk factors across a 2-year time span.

Methods

Observational longitudinal study that included 358 children and adolescents (10.96 ± 2.28 years of age at baseline). Cardiorespiratory fitness, glucose, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio, triglycerides, and waist circumference were assessed. The number of children in whom the risk factors were not independently distributed was analyzed. Odds ratios of presenting n risk factors clustered at follow-up according to the number of risk factors observed at baseline were calculated.

Results

More participants than expected were found presenting clus

SUBMITTER: de Castro Silveira JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10225448 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature