Childhood cardiovascular risk factors and adult cardiovascular events

Cardiovascular risk factors in childhood.

It is regrettable that although the incidence of fatal coronary heart disease on the other side of the Atlantic and in Australia is falling, the toll here, even if not increasing at the great pace of the 'fifties and 'sixties, is only just beginning to level off. Few of us can afford to be complacent, and we as paediatricians have a duty to sow the seeds of longevity in our patients. For these ...

Relationship Between Lipid Profile and Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Lumbar Degenerative Disease in Adult Surgical Candidates

Background and Aim: There is no research consensus on the relationship between lipid profiles, atherosclerosis risk factors, and lumbar disc degeneration. The present study examined the relationship between lipid profile and some risk factors of cardiovascular diseases and lumbar disc degeneration in patients undergoing surgery. Methods and Materials/Patients: The study was conducted on ...

Obesity, risk factors, and predicting cardiovascular events.

APubMed search in March 2005 with the key word “metabolic syndrome” yielded 10 000 references. Past labels for this disorder include “syndrome X,” “deadly quartet,” and “cardiovascular dysmetabolic syndrome.”1–3 What is driving the current increased interest in the metabolic syndrome? Possibly the impetus comes from the dramatic increases in obesity in the United States and other developed coun...

Novel Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Childhood

Socioeconomic position in childhood and adult cardiovascular risk factors, vascular structure, and function: cardiovascular risk in young Finns study.

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of childhood socioeconomic position (SEP) with adult cardiovascular risk factors, vascular structure, and vascular function in a contemporary population of young adults. DESIGN Population based prospective cohort study with baseline assessment in 1980. SETTING Finland. PARTICIPANTS 856 men and 1066 women whose childhood SEP was determined by parental o...