carotid intima-media thickness in children with overweight/obesity: a single-center study

Our study aimed to assess carotid artery intima-media thickness (cimt) in a group of children with overweight/obesity as a good predictor for atherosclerosis.we included 39 prepubertal children with body mass indexes (bmi) above 85% for age and sex; 23% overweight, and 77% obese. twenty matched non-obese healthy children were enrolled to compare cimt results. about 44% of the cases had abnormal blood pressure, ~39% had dyslipidemia, and ~74% had an unhealthy metabolic state.we observed higher cimt in cases than controls, with no significant difference between overweight and obese status (at a confidence interval of 95% and p < 0.05). cimt was positively associated with the bmi of the whole study group, and with hc and triglyceride in the children with obesity. cimt was significantly higher among children with overweight/obesity than in average weight children, regardless of their metabolic status or blood pressure stage.