Metabolically Healthy Obesity and High Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Children and Adolescents: International Childhood Vascular Structure Evaluation Consortium.

Min ZhaoAbel López-BermejoCarmelo A CasertaCarla Campos Muniz MedeirosAnastasios KolliasJudit BassolsElisabetta L RomeoThacira Dantas Almeida RamosGeorge S StergiouLili YangSilvia Xargay-TorrentAngela AmanteTatianne Moura Estrela GusmãoEvangelos GrammatikosYuanyuan ZhangAnna Prats-PuigDanielle Franklin de CarvalhoLiu YangGemma Carreras-BadosaMônica de Oliveira SimõesYaping HouBerta Mas-ParesWang ShuiTeng GuoMingming WangHua ChenXiaohuan LouQian ZhangYanqing ZhangPascal BovetCostan G MagnussenBo Xinull null

Published in: Diabetes care (2018)

Among children and adolescents, cIMT was higher for both MHO and metabolically healthy overweight compared with metabolically healthy normal weight. Our findings reinforce the need for weight control in children and adolescents irrespective of their metabolic status.

Keyphrases

weight loss
weight gain
physical activity
body mass index
metabolic syndrome
insulin resistance
type diabetes
optical coherence tomography
cardiovascular disease
skeletal muscle