Study Subjects Marker Results Comments
López-Jaramillo, et al.27 ] 325 schoolchildren (mean age, 10.0 years) from Colombia CRP Mean (mg/dL) ± SD CRP levels correlate significantly with BMI. (
). Gillum83 ] 996 Mexican American children aged 6–11 years. CRP Detectable CRP was seen in 34.7% of overweight children but only 6.8% of other children (
, RR = 5.12, 95% CI: 3.32–7.90). CRP levels correlate significantly with BMI. (
). Visser et al.84 ] 3512 American children (8 to 16 years of age). CRP Percentile value CRP (mg/dL) CRP levels correlate significantly with BMI. (
). Cook et al.28 ] 699 (10 to 11 years of age) multiethnic study in children. CRP Median mg/L CRP was strongly related to adiposity (95% CI, 155–439%) and was higher in South Asian children. Ford 29 ] 3348 White, Black and Mexican-American US children and young adults. CRP Median No significant differences between ethnicities.
Aeberli et al. [30 ] 33 Swiss children (6 to 14 years of age). Normal-weight (
),
),
) CRP CRP median (mg/dL) α (pg/mL) CRP, IL-6 increased significantly (
) with increasing adiposity, independent of age. IL-6 Overweight: 0.34 (0.05–1.81) TNF-α Overweight: 6.3 (4.2–11.8) Weiss et al.85 ] 439 White, Black and Hispanic, obese, overweight and nonobese American children and adolescents. CRP Mean CRP (mg/dL), Interleukin-6 and CRP were significantly related to the degree of obesity (
) IL-6 Blacks moderately obese: 1.89 Vikram et al.86 ] 62 Indian adolescents CRP Mean (mg/dL) ± SD CRP levels correlate significantly with BMI (
).
