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Obesity Not a Good Predictor of High Cholesterol in Kids
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You don’t have to be a doctor to suspect an overweight or obese person is going to have some health problems–sometimes it obvious.
Nowadays you hear a lot of reports about healthy-looking people getting heart disease, hypertension and high-cholesterol.
Turns out, same goes for kids. That’s why a new study claims using obesity alone is not a good predicator of high-cholesterol in children.
If you looked at a group of kids and had to guess who had the high-cholesterol, you’d probably pick the “big” kids. But, findings in Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, reveal children with high BMI can actually have normal cholesterol levels, while healthy-weight kids can have high-cholesterol.
This is prompting researchers to recommend reevaluating the way kids are screened for high-cholesterol, so that fewer unnecessary tests are performed.
I’m no doctor, but I think taking a look at a kid’s diet and physical activity level is a surefire why to tell. I don’t know, call me crazy!
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