With obesity increasingly on the rise from the past twenty years in the United States researchers investigate the direct correlation of cardiovascular disease that are manifested in adulthood may actually have begun in childhood. The May issue of Science Daily explores the correspondence of endothelial dysfunction and the correlation of coronary artery function in adults with heart disease.
Healthy endothelium is a single layer that lines all blood vessels in the body,the key to maintaining proper vascular health. Therefore, endothelial dysfunction is a primary contributor to the buildup of fatty deposits within the inside of the wall of the arteries known as atheroschlorosis. Which in adults have been related to an increase risk of heart attacks, strokes and congestive heart failure.
Researchers felt:
endothelial function can be measured non-invasively in children using venous
occlusion plethysmography (VOP), a technique that measures responses of arm
blood vessel responses to an inflatable cuff that externally halts and restarts
blood flow. This method has been shown to correlate with coronary artery
function in adults with heart disease.Judith Groner, MD, the presenting author of the study, a pediatrician in Ambulatory Pediatrics at Nationwide Children's Hospital and a faculty member of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, said,
"My colleagues in the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's and I found that regardless of age, race or sex, obesity in children and adolescents negatively impacts their endothelial function. Considering the connection between endothelial function and heart disease, this information is alarming given the high prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity in our country."
With investigations such as these, we can no longer turn a blind eye to this rising epidemic. Childhood and adolescent obesity does not discriminate as we can see from this current inquiry. Given this information isn't it time that we start adcocating to make a change?
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