Impact of Severe Obesity on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Youth

Objective To compare cardiovascular risk factor clustering (CVRFC) in severely obese youth with those with lower degrees of obesity. Study design We divided a childhood obesity clinic derived cohort into the degrees of obesity (class I, II, and III) and added a “class IV” category corresponding to >160% of the 95th centile of body mass index (BMI) for age and sex. In a cross-sectional analysis, we investigated the presence of CVRFC in 2244...