A Distinction between Obese to Non-Obese 7 to 9 year-olds

The news source is Medical News Today and the study was conducted by Health Promotion at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans.

A new research conducted corroborated how healthy obese young children may be predisposed to the development of metabolic disease as they age as being observed in the adult populations.

Obesity, as being remarked, has become prevalent over the past 3 decades. Although a recent national report indicates a leveling off of this trend, a significant portion of the younger population remains obese and at risk for developing metabolic diseases such as Diabetes type II. Some regions, especially areas with traditionally higher obesity prevalence rates, however, may not mirror national estimates.

In the study, the results were based on the BMI z-score of 123 children, ages 7 to 9, being recruited from southeast Louisiana. Although a clear definition for the metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents has not yet been established, by one set of proposed criteria, 16% of participants met the definition and 8% by another definition. They also found that these obese children had nearly three times the liver fat and almost double the belly fat of their non-obese counterparts. Also, the insulin resistance was more than double and insulin sensitivity less than half respectively.

According to the researchers, the amount and location of body fat, particularly in the liver, appears to play a critical role in disease development and that the substantial variation in biomarkers observed in these young children suggests that obesity in this age group may disrupt normal metabolism, impairing glucose tolerance and increasing the risk for Type 2 diabetes later in life.

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