Twenty-year trend in the prevalence of increased cardiometabolic risk, measured by abdominal obesity, among Spanish children and adolescents across body mass index categories.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identifying children and adolescents with cardiometabolic risk at an early stage is crucial for effective treatment and prevention. From a practical perspective, this could be accomplished by assessing the presence of abdominal obesity, which serves as a surrogate indicator of increased cardiometabolic risk and is easy to measure. However, the assessment of abdominal obesity via waist circumference has not yet become a standard procedure in pediatric healthcare. The present study aimed to analyze the secular trends in increased cardiometabolic risk, as indicated by waist circumference among Spanish children and adolescents.

Methods

This study included 4861 children and adolescents aged 8 to 16 years from two nationwide representative cross-sectional surveys, the E

SUBMITTER: Schroder H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11539305 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature