One in eight children at risk of heart disease
Sunday, November 9, 2003
Washington (AFP) - One in eight American children show
three factors that show a risk of heart disease,
according to a study presented at an American Heart
Association conference in Florida.
In all, more than half the children studied (58.3
percent) had at least one of six metabolic syndrome risk
factors for heart ailments, while 27.4 percent had two or
more, and 13.5 percent had three factors or more.
In this last group, the children were no older than eight
or nine years.
"The risk was about 1.6 times higher for girls than for
boys," said lead author Joanne Harrell, nursing professor
at the Center for Research on Chronic Illness at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of
Nursing.
More than 3,200 children aged between eight and 17 from
rural North Carolina were involved in the study, 47.9
percent of them white, 42.4 percent black.
More than one in four of those studied was overweight.
Harrell said that the girls were slightly more often
overweight than the boys, a factor contributing to risk.
Other risk factors included high blood pressure, elevated
triglycerides, low levels of high-density lipoprotein --
so-called good cholesterol -- and high insulin levels.
"These were regular, normal kids, but we found risk
factors that are clear danger signs for the future,"
Harrell said. "If nothing is done, a good number of these
children could develop type 2 diabetes and heart
disease."
"We chose to study children in rural schools with a high
minority population because rural children have slightly
higher rates of obesity than urban children, and type 2
diabetes is more common in minorities."
The children will be followed for three to four years.
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