The Impact of Obesity on Children and Adolescents.

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Obesity; Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01231152

OB10

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to investigate the association of obesity with arterial blood pressure, atherosclerosis, target organ damage (heart, arteries, kidney) and insulin resistance in children and young adolescents.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Overweight (85th<BMI<95th percentile) and obese (BMI>=95th percentile) children and adolescents
• No medication treatment (apart from bronchodilators, T4 in euthyroid children)
• No severe mental problem
• Parents' and patients' signed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Severe chronic or acute cardiac disease or other severe chronic or acute disease
• Any acute inflammation
• Familial dyslipidemia
• Clinical hypothyroidism or other endocrinopathy
• Poor compliance.