Pediatric Obesity

Many Latino children well on their way to diabetes, heart disease

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, February 2nd, 2004

Recent headlines about the health of the nation's youth have raised alarm, but a new study shows that the pervasiveness of the early stages of heart disease and diabetes among Latino children may be particularly disturbing.

Three in 10 pre-teens in the University of Southern California (USC) Study of Latinos at Risk (SOLAR) Diabetes Project have the metabolic syndrome, a clustering of risk factors for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to investigators from the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Results appeared in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

The metabolic syndrome comprises numerous risk factors: high...

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