The growing epidemic of childhood obesity could result in heart attacks and other cardiovascular events when those children hit their 30s and 40s, NHANES data suggested.Fat parents have fat kids.
There were 17.5% of children ages 6 to 11 who were considered overweight in the period from 2001 to 2004, up from just 4% from 1971 to 1974, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) presented here at the World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease.
NHANES data also showed that for the 12 to 19 year age group, 17% were overweight in 2001 to 2004 compared with 6.1% in the earlier period, said Stephen R. Daniels, MD, PhD, of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital, both in Denver.
"There has been a dramatic increase in childhood obesity," Daniels remarked during his review of data linking childhood overweight and obesity with insulin resistance-mediated heart and blood vessel disease later in life. "There is both circumstantial and direct evidence of a link between obesity in youth and cardiovascular disease."
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