Childhood Obesity Associates Haemodynamic and Vascular Changes That Result in Increased Central Aortic Pressure with Augmented Incident and Reflected Wave Components, without Changes in Peripheral Amplification
Table 1
Characteristics for normal weight (NW) and obese (OB) children and adolescents.
NW
OB
value
(female %)
54 (43%)
63 (44%)
0.945
Age (years)
10.62 ± 2.93
10.34 ± 2.68
0.660
Height (m)
1.40 ± 0.15
1.44 ± 0.16
0.175
Weight (kg)
36.09 ± 11.85
58.95 ± 23.07
0.000
BMI percentile
61.60 ± 19.91
98.70 ± 0.83
0.000
BMI score
0.25 ± 0.66
3.86 ± 1.59
0.000
Hypertension prevalence (%)
9.3
19.1
0.134
Dyslipidemia prevalence (%)
3.7
19.1
0.010
Sedentarism prevalence (%)
37.0
55.6
0.045
value
(female %)
26 (48%)
17 (53%)
0.923
Age (years)
9.95 ± 3.15
10.2 ± 3
0.757
Height (m)
1.36 ± 0.17
1.42 ± 0.13
0.237
Weight (kg)
33.9 ± 12.5
52.1 ± 19.1
0.000
BMI percentile
64.2 ± 19.6
98.5 ± 1.06
0.000
BMI score
0.26 ± 0.52
3.12 ± 0.92
0.000
Hypertension prevalence (%)
0
0
1.000
Dyslipidemia prevalence (%)
0
0
1.000
Sedentarism prevalence (%)
0
0
1.000
NW: normal weight; OB: obese; and : normal weight and obese children and adolescents without sedentarism, dyslipidemia, and hypertension.
