2024-03-29T00:54:30Zhttp://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/1251342016-02-18T03:27:03Zcom_10261_42343com_10261_2col_10261_42344
Low-grade inflammation and the metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents
Wärnberg, Julia
Marcos, Ascensión
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The prevalence of overweight and the metabolic syndrome is increasing in young people. This review aims to summarize current research in children and adolescents on inflammatory markers related to components of the metabolic syndrome. RECENT FINDINGS: Obesity is characterized by a state of low-grade inflammation at all ages. Body fat has been shown to correlate with the various components of the metabolic syndrome. There is evidence to show that chronic subclinical inflammation in childhood and adolescence is associated with metabolic dysfunction, which can lead to insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome. SUMMARY: The results presented in this review highlight the underlying inflammatory mechanisms of the early stages of metabolic disorders related to obesity. The preclinical phases of diabetes and cardiovascular disease last many decades, and this feature of the diseases provides an opportunity for the early identification of target groups and the use of appropriate prevention strategies while the pathological processes are still completely reversible. © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.
Peer Reviewed
2015-11-17T07:35:20Z
2015-11-17T07:35:20Z
2008
2015-11-17T07:35:21Z
artículo
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
doi: 10.1097/MOL.0b013e3282f4096b
issn: 0957-9672
Current Opinion in Lipidology 19: 11- 15 (2008)
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/125134
10.1097/MOL.0b013e3282f4096b
none
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins