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Neck circumference and its association with central obesity and cardiometabolic co - morbidity in obese children
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Abstract
Obesity in children and adolescents has become an increasing clinical and public health concern. Its prevalence has increased significantly worldwide with an alarming rise of its co - morbidities that elevate the cardiovascular risk of affected people. Neck circumference (NC) has been shown to be an indicator of central adiposity and as a new screening method for measurement of obesity among children. Among those comorbidities are cardiometabolic comorbidities and metabolic syndrome which are due to impairment of systolic, diastolic blood pressure values , HDL, LDL, cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose and insulin level which indicates insulin resistance. The present study was a cross-sectional case-control study done in Diabetes Endocrine and Metabolism Pediatric Unit (DEMPU), pediatric Hospital, Cairo University. It included 50 obese children (BMI {u2265} 95th percentile for age and sex) and 50 non obese age and sex matched children who were taken as controls