Children obesity and its metabolic outcomes

Summary

According to current statistics, there are, at an average child’s general practice about seventy children registered with obesity, including fifty children indicated for long-term treatment of obesity due to medical indications, fifteen children are intended for targeted modifications in their diet, and in almost every practice there is a child with a pathognomonic obesity. Currently, we are exposed to food-borne pandemic coupled polygenic obesity, which is a chronic metabolic disease with societal consequences. Alimentary obesity mainly reflects an early onset of cardio-metabolic risk, but the clinical picture of complications of childhood obesity is broader and includes not only the risk of life-limitation, but also respiratory, gastrointestinal, neurological, orthopaedic and endocrine complications along with serious psychosocial problems. The effects caused by childhood obesity are reversible initially, and early identification and treatment is a major clinical challenge in preventing the development of serious metabolic, organ, psychological and societal complications.

Key words:
obesity in children, cardio-metabolic risk, metabolic syndrome, liver steatosis, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.