Adiposity status and arterial system in childhood and adolescence

Overweight and obesity, defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that might impair health, track from childhood and adolescence to adulthood, a stage in which an excess in body fat is clearly associated with increased cardiovascular risk.1WHOObesity and overweight.http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweightDate: 2017Date accessed: April 1, 2019Google Scholar Cardiovascular changes associated with obesity have...