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Question: Among overweight and obese children and young adults, what is the association between cardiometabolic risk factors and severity of obesity?
Question type: Descriptive
Study design: Cross-sectional
Investigators from the University of North Carolina analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to assess whether there was a difference in the prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors according to obesity severity among children and adolescents. Participants included overweight and obese children between ages 3 and 19 years who were enrolled in NHANES between 1999 and 2002. NHANES uses a stratified sample of the US population, and data collection included an interview about health and demographic variables, physical examination findings, and laboratory measurements. The BMI, based on height and weight measurements obtained during the NHANES examination, was categorized as overweight (BMI …
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