Modest decrease in severity of obesity in adolescence associates with low arterial stiffness

Childhood obesity is associated with cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF), subclinical cardiovascular phenotypes (carotid intima-media thickness, cIMT; pulse-wave velocity, PWV; and carotid elasticity), and adult cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. In youth with obesity (body mass index, BMI ≥95th centile), we investigated associations between change in adiposity and CVRF from early adolescence and subclinical cardiovascular phenotypes in late adolescence.

Source: Atherosclerosis - September 13, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Christoph Saner, Tomi T. Laitinen, Joel Nuotio, Sarah J. Arnup, Brooke E. Harcourt, Siroon Bekkering, Zoe McCallum, Kung-Ting Kao, Marco Janner, Costan G. Magnussen, Matthew A. Sabin, Markus Juonala, David P. Burgner Source Type: research