A study of the association of lipid profile and BMI in children
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Pediatrics - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: Obesity is a widespread and growing problem in the world with significant medical, psychosocial and economic consequences. Aims and Objectives: To Study association of lipid profile and BMI in Children. Methodology: This was a cross sectional study carried out in the Children and adolescents at tertiary health care centre during the one year period i.e. March 2017 to March 2018, so in the one year period there were 80 patients diagnosed with obesity by Body Mass Index (BMI) Growth charts provided by WHO with respect to age and sex was utilized for inclusion of the individuals. The lipid profile in children was carried out by standard protocol. The data analysis was done by co-relation co-efficient and was done SPSS 19 version software. Result: The average age of the children was 10.22 ± 3.62 Yrs. and range was 2-20 Yrs. The average BMI in Obese children was 25.88±4.41. The majority of the patients were males i.e. 51.25% and females were 48.75% there was Correlation between TG (R2=0.232), LDL (R2=0.633), VLDL (R2=0.238) with respect to BMI (R2=0.009) and no co-relation with HDL (R2 =0.000). Conclusion: It can be concluded from our study that the lipid profile was deranged in children if BMI in children increases so, it indicates that child hood obesity may leads to future cardio vascular diseases.
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Kudlappa Angadi, Raghavendraswami Amoghimath
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