Pediatric Metabolic Syndrome Study (PMSS)

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight and Obesity; Cardiovascular Risk Factor; Metabolic Syndrome

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03570840

0863 (Other Identifier)

19375

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Pediatric Metabolic Syndrome Study is an observational study being conducted at the Medical University of South Carolina to investigate cardiometabolic risk parameters in obese subjects ages 4 to 21. A detailed assessment is performed on eligible subjects including fasting labwork, anthropometrics, nutrition analysis, body composition testing, echocardiography, and carotid IMT measurements.

Enrollment: 477 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 21 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

age 4 to 21 years history of obesity (BMI at or over the 95th% for age/gender)

Exclusion criteria

age below 4 or above 21 years no history of obesity current pregnancy current chronic oral steroid use current insulin use

Trial design

477 participants in 1 patient group

obese children and adolescents