Key result
Childhood obesity strongly correlates with future cardiovascular and diabetes risk, making school-based screening an effective strategy to identify children for lifestyle modification.
Why the study?
Childhood obesity correlates strongly with future type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, making school-based screening effective to identify at-risk children for lifestyle modification programs.
Do cardio-metabolic risk stratification and lifestyle interventions reduce cardio-metabolic risk in overweight and obese school children?
Do cardio-metabolic risk stratification and lifestyle interventions reduce cardio-metabolic risk in overweight and obese school children?
Screening and lifestyle interventions may help identify and manage cardio-metabolic risk in overweight and obese school children.
May support school screening to flag at-risk children; leaves open whether interventions reduce future events.
Background and Objectives: Childhood obesity strongly correlates with risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in the future. Screening of school children for diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk will be effective in identifying children at risk of developing cardio metabolic diseases and successfully enrolling them in a lifestyle modifi cation program.
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Shardul et al. (2020) studied this question. Childhood obesity strongly correlates with future cardiovascular and diabetes risk, making school-based screening an effective strategy to identify children for lifestyle modification.
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