Monday, April 11 HealthDay News)-the wrist size of children overweight or obese and can open to an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, put teens, says a new study.
Italian researchers measured wrist circumference of 477 overweight or obese young people, average age of 10 years. You used to measure also a painless nuclear imaging technique on about 50 of the children to the fat and bony areas of the wrist.
Blood tests were performed to measure the children insulin levels and amount of insulin resistance.
Authors the study came to the conclusion that wrist was size 12 to 17 per cent of the total variance of insulin resistance.
Insulin resistance - a condition where the body has difficulty with insulin to break blood glucose-is a well-known risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Recent studies have shown an association between high blood insulin levels and increased mass.
The study is published in the journal circulation April 11.
"This is the first evidence that wrist size is on the detection of insulin resistance, highly correlated" senior author Dr. Raffaella Buzzetti, the Sapienza University of Rome, said in a press release journal. "Wrist size is easily measured, and if our work is confirmed by future studies, wrist size could be one day used to predict risk of insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease."
It said the wrist bony tissue, not the fat tissue, that insulin resistance explains the researcher.
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The Nemours Foundation has more about overweight and obesity in children.
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