Association of parental obesity with cardiometabolic risk factors in their children: The CASPIAN-V study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The family environment has a crucial role in the development of childhood obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders. This study aims to investigate the association of parental obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors in their children.

Methods

This multicentric cross-sectional study was performed on 14400 students (aged 7-18 years) and one of their parents. Students were recruited by multistage, stratified cluster sampling from urban and rural areas of 30 provinces of Iran. Fasting venous blood was obtained from a random sample of 4200 students. Demographic, anthropometric and clinical variables were collected.

Results

Data of 14002 students and results of blood samples of 3483 of them were complete and included in the current study. The prevalence of o

SUBMITTER: Ejtahed HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5894970 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature