Cardiometabolic Risk, Cohort Study, Visceral Fat
Conditions
Brief summary
The present study showed that the 75th percentile of visceral fat area in boys and girls is the optimal cutoff for screening cardiometabolic risk and its clustering, but the 80th percentile is the optimal cutoff for hyperglycemia screening in girls. The investigators proposed simplified cutoffs of 37.19 cm2 and 31.09 cm2 aged 6 to 8 years, 56.76 cm2 and 39.51 cm2 aged 9 to 11 years, 57.03 cm2 and 38.33 cm2 aged 12 to 15 years, and 58.32 cm2 and 53.91 cm2 aged 16 to 18 years for boys and girls, respectively. Both the optimal and simplified methods were verified in a 2-year longitudinal cohort. An improved understanding of the importance of visceral fat to cardiometabolic risk and its clustering in children may yield insight into the risks associated with child obesity and the initial phases of cardiovascular disease development, especially in normal-weight boys.
Interventions
OTHERNo intervention
No intervention was involved in this study
Sponsors
Capital Medical University
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
6 Years to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Healthy children and adolescents aged 6-18 years
Exclusion criteria
Heart disease Kidney disease Thyroid disease Individuals who take hormone medication Missing data for anthropometry
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Visceral fat area cutoffs and cardiometabolic risk | 2 years | Based on dual-energy X-ray measurements of visceral fat area, age- and sex-specific visceral fat area cutoffs for screening cardiometabolic risk was developed and validated. |
Outcome results
None listed