Why the study?
Carotid artery intima-media thickness and endothelial dysfunction associate with cardiovascular disease, motivating evaluation of their correlation with cardiovascular risk predictors in adolescents with obesity.
Comparison
Correlation between cIMT, brachial intraluminal diameter, flow-mediated vasodilation, and CV risk predictors
Design
Cross-sectional study
Authors
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May indicate early vascular changes in obese adolescents; hypothesis-generating for pediatric CV risk markers.
In adolescents with obesity, waist-to-height ratio correlates with carotid intima-media thickness, suggesting anthropometric data combined with ultrasound may be a practical, low-cost approach to evaluate cardiovascular risk.
Ribeiro et al. (2020) studied this question.
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