%0 Journal Article
%A Cabeza, Juan Fernandez
%A Aristizabal-Duque, Cristhian H
%A Sanchez, Isabel Maria Blancas
%A Ortiz, Martin Ruiz
%A Almodovar, Ana Rodriguez
%A Ortega, Monica Delgado
%A Martinez, Fatima Esteban
%A Saldaña, Manuel Romero
%A Del Pozo, Francisco Javier Fonseca
%A Alvarez-Ossorio, Manuel Pan
%A Rubio, Maria Dolores Mesa
%T Relationship between overweight and obesity and cardiac dimensions and function in a paediatric population.
%D 2022
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/20119
%X Obesity in adults is associated with left ventricular hypertrophy, dilatation, and myocardial fibrosis, as well as heart failure and coronary heart disease. These associations have been studied to a lesser extent in the paediatric population. This study aims to investigate the relationship between obesity and cardiac structure and function in the paediatric population. In a southern Spanish village, we selected all inhabitants aged 6-17 years stratifying by age, gender, and educational centres. We performed a complete transthoracic echocardiogram evaluating all the cardiac morphological and functional parameters commonly measured in an echocardiographic study. There were 212 children and adolescents included. Of them, 48.1% were males. The mean age was 10.9 ± 3.0 years. A total of 106 (50%) were normal weight, 57 (26.9%) overweight, and 49 (23.1%) obese. Sex and age were similar in all three groups. Overweight and obesity were associated with larger left ventricular end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes (p  Childhood obesity is independently associated with larger heart chambers, greater left ventricle mass, and smaller left ventricle ejection fraction. 
%K Childhood obesity
%K Echocardiography
%K Left ventricular ejection fraction
%K Left ventricular mass
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