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Table 1

From: Relation between Childhood Obesity and Adult Cardiovascular Risk

Study

Population

Outcome measured

Significant result

Vanhala et al. [15]

1008 Finnish people born in the years 1947, 1952, and 1957

Relationship between obesity and cardiometabolic syndrome in childhood and adulthood

Risk of cardiometabolic syndrome was lower among obese adults who had not been obese as children

Hofmans et al. [16]

78,612 18 year old Dutch men

Impact of BMI on all-cause mortality

Higher incidence of all-cause deaths in those with BMI 25 or 18

Morrison et al. [17]

771 children from Cincinnati, followed into adulthood

Relationship between cardiometabolic syndrome in childhood and CHD in adulthood

Adults more likely to develop CHD if they had cardiometabolic syndrome in childhood

Li et al. [18]

486 adults age 25–37 from Bogalusa, La. with at least 3 cardiovascular risk factors

Association of carotid IMT with cardiovascular risk factors

Childhood measures of LDL-C and BMI predict carotid IMT in young adults