Obesity is the primary driver of clustered cardiovascular risk factors in healthy adolescents, mirroring adult patterns.
Clustering of CV risks emerges in healthy adolescents with obesity as key driver; extends adult patterns but remains hypothesis-generating pending longitudinal data.
The patterning of CV risk clustering seen among adults is present in healthy adolescents. Among youth, obesity is the predominant correlate of cumulative risk.
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