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Abstract
In Egypt, there is an emerging evidence that diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension and hyperlipidemia contribute to national morbidity and mortality; as about 41% of all deaths related to chronic diseases (WHO, 2004).
An ideal obesity parameter is needed to be universally applicable, inexpensive, non-invasive. And it should allow the best uniform prediction of cardiometabolic risk to facilitate further screening and treatment decisions (Salah et al, 2010).
The study aimed to evaluate the usefulness of WHtR in evaluating the status of abdominal obesity and related cardiometabolic risk profile among normal-weight and overweight/obese 6-10 year old children.
This study included 48 children aged 6-10 years divided into two groups obese and normal weight , both groups are compatible as regard age and sex.
They were 24 obese children and 24 non-obese children matched in sex and age.They were subjected to full history taking ,complete general and local examination and to weight, height and WC measurement. BMI and WHtR were calculated,and fasting blood samples were drawn for serum lipid and fasting blood sugar assessment.
Our results revealed the following :
1. the obese children had significantly higher values as regard weight , BMI ,WC and WHtR than non obese .
2. Obese children had significantly higher SBP and DBP than non obese .
3. Obese children had significantly higher LDL, TG , cholesterol and CRP than non obese children .
4. WHtR was the same as BMI in predicting cardio metabolic risk as both correlated significantly with 7 factors included in our study ( SBP , DBP ,HDL , TG , LDL, TG and CRP).