Study Suggests Young Overweight Girls Quickly Develop Serious Health Problems
Overweight girls as young as 9-years-old are 3 to 10 times as likely as girls of normal weight to have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol and triglyceride levels. This result suggests that doctors should help children lose weight so they are at less risk for heart disease.
Researchers at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute studied 2,379 girls ages 9 and 10 for more than ten years. They kept track of the girls' heights, weights, blood pressure and cholesterol levels. The overweight girls were 11 to 30 times more likely to become obese adults. Even at young ages, the overweight girls were already developing signs of cardiovascular disease.
This study appears in the January 2007 issue of the Journal of Pediatrics.
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