Relationship between the change in overweight status from childhood to adolescence and metabolic syndrome phenotypes: a 9-year retrospective study

• Published in: European journal of clinical nutrition 2008-06, Vol.62 (6), p.748-753
• Main Authors: Kim, K.R, Kim, M.K, Shin, Y.J, Choi, B.Y
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adolescence; Adolescent; adolescent nutrition; Adolescents; Biological and medical sciences; Blood; body fat; Body Mass Index; Body size; Body weight; Body Weight - physiology; body weight change; Child; Child development; Childhood; childhood obesity; Children; Children & youth; Clinical Nutrition; Cross-Sectional Studies; Diagnosis; diet-related diseases; Epidemiology; Feeding. Feeding behavior; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Genotype & phenotype; human diseases; Humans; Internal Medicine; Korea; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Metabolic disorders; Metabolic syndrome; Metabolic Syndrome - epidemiology; Metabolic Syndrome - etiology; Miscellaneous; Nutritional Status; Obesity; Obesity in adolescence; Obesity in children; original-article; Other metabolic disorders; Overweight; Overweight - complications; Overweight - metabolism; Phenotype; Phenotypes; Public Health; Retrospective Studies; Risk factors; surveys; Teenagers; Thinness - complications; Thinness - metabolism; Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems
• ISSN: 0954-3007; 1476-5640
• DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602783

Objective: To evaluate how the changes in overweight status from childhood to adolescence are related to metabolic syndrome phenotypes in adolescents. Subjects and methods: A total 375 adolescents aged 16 years. The overweight status from childhood to adolescence (from 7 years of age to 16 years) was determined by body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) calculated from records of the School Physical Examination data. The change in body weight was classified into four groups: normal weight to normal weight (NW-NW); overweight to normal (OW-NW); normal to overweight (NW-OW); overweight to overweight (OW-OW). Metabolic syndrome phenotypes were examined from a cross-sectional survey. Results: The mean values of all phenotypes except for body fatness (BMI and waist) and the cluster score of phenotypes at 16 years of age were not different between the NW-NW group and the OW-NW group, nor between the NW-OW group and the OW-OW group. However, the score as well as the level of body fatness and blood glucose were significantly different between current overweight and normal adolescents regardless of overweight status during childhood (P