Cardiovascular disease risk in healthy children and its association with body mass index: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the association and its magnitude between body mass index category, sex, and cardiovascular disease risk parameters in school aged children in highly developed countries.

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis. Quality of included studies assessed by an adapted version of the Cochrane Collaboration's risk of bias assessment tool. Results of included studies in meta-analysis were pooled and analysed by Review Manager version 5.1.

Data sources

Embase, PubMed, EBSCOHost's cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature, and the Web of Science databases for papers published between January 2000 and December 2011.

Review methods

Healthy children aged 5 to 15 in highly developed countries enrolled in studies done after 1990 and usi

SUBMITTER: Friedemann C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3458230 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature