Obesity and blood pressureFresults

Obesity and blood pressureFresults from the examination of 2365 schoolchildren in Germany

Introduction

The prevalence of obesity in childhood and adolescence is

increasing rapidly worldwide.1–6 Obesity at young age

predicts the likelihood of obesity in adulthood.7 Obesity in

childhood is an important risk factor for several disorders8

such as the metabolic syndrome,9 hypertension,10,11 and

cardiovascular disease,12–14 as well as for morbidity and

mortality in the later life.15,16 One of the aims of our study

was to assess the prevalence of obesity in schoolchildren

compared to recently published regional data,6 and its

relationship to the level of education.

A recent work17 has examined the (in)consistency of

different indices of body fat in children, concluding with

the question about their ability to predict morbidity. The

present study is giving a partial answer, providing estimates

for the influence of body fat, assessed by body mass index

(BMI), skinfolds, waist–hip ratio (WHR), and bioelectric

Results (Indonesian) 1:

Obesitas dan darah pressureFresults dari pemeriksaan 2365 anak-anak sekolah di JermanPengenalanPrevalensi kegemukan di masa kanak-kanak dan remaja adalahmeningkat pesat worldwide.1–6 obesitas pada usia mudamemprediksi kemungkinan obesitas di adulthood.7 obesitas dimasa kanak-kanak adalah faktor penting risiko untuk beberapa disorders8seperti sindrom metabolik, hipertensi 9, 10, 11 danpenyakit kardiovaskular, 12-14 serta untuk morbiditas dankematian di life.15,16 kemudian salah satu tujuan studi kamiadalah untuk menilai prevalensi obesitas pada anak-anak sekolahdibandingkan dengan data daerah yang baru saja diterbitkan, 6 danhubungan ke tingkat pendidikan.Work17 kemarin telah diperiksa (dalam) konsistensiIndeks yang berbeda dari lemak tubuh pada anak, menyimpulkan denganpertanyaan tentang kemampuannya untuk memprediksi morbiditas. ThePenelitian ini memberikan jawaban yang parsial, memberikan perkiraanuntuk pengaruh lemak tubuh, dinilai oleh indeks massa tubuh(BMI), skinfolds, rasio pinggang-pinggul (WHR), dan bioelectric