Key result
Childhood obesity in Hong Kong Chinese youth is associated with cardiovascular risk factors, including impaired glucose tolerance, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and comorbidities like NAFLD.
This review highlights the local clinical evidence regarding the epidemiology and medical consequences of childhood obesity in Hong Kong Chinese youth.
Supports CV risk screening in obese Hong Kong youth; extends local data but leaves open intervention effects.
Childhood obesity is a global epidemic and is associated with medical consequences. These consequences of childhood obesity include its association with cardiovascular risk factors, notably impaired glucose tolerance, hypertension, atherogenic dyslipidemia, micro inflammation, and comorbidities including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), sleep apnoea, and early atherosclerosis. This article aims to demonstrate and review the local clinical evidences in Hong Kong Chinese children and adolescents in exploring the epidemiology and medical consequences associated with obesity in the youth population and highlighting the research direction in searching the etiology of these associations.
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Kong et al. (2010) conducted a review in Childhood obesity. Childhood obesity was evaluated. Childhood obesity in Hong Kong Chinese youth is associated with cardiovascular risk factors, including impaired glucose tolerance, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and comorbidities like NAFLD.
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