Does higher childhood BMI increase the risk of coronary heart disease in adulthood?
Higher childhood BMI is associated with an increased risk of adult coronary heart disease, highlighting the long-term cardiovascular consequences of childhood obesity.
Higher BMI during childhood is associated with an increased risk of CHD in adulthood. The associations are stronger in boys than in girls and increase with the age of the child in both sexes. Our findings suggest that as children are becoming heavier worldwide, greater numbers of them are at risk of having CHD in adulthood.
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