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Mediciego 2011; 17 (S2)

Characterization of the exogenous obesity in a group of patients taken care of in consultation of pediatrics endocrinology

Pérez SLA, Santana SS, Pérez CN, Expósito PO

Language: Spanish
References: 19
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ABSTRACT

It was carry out an observacional descriptive prospective study with the objective to determine the predominance of the exogenous obesity in the consultation of Pediatric Endocrinology of the Teaching General Hospital “Capitán Roberto Rodríguez Fernández” of Moron. The sample was constituted by 48 patients in pediatric age with exogenous obesity of one or another sex, attended from January until December, 2010. The most excellent results were the following ones: the predominance of exogenous obesity was 62%; the most represented age group was from 10 to 18 years with 24 adolescents for 50%; the masculine sex prevailed in 54,2%; the biggest number of obese were included in the severe category for 97,7%; relating the grade of exogenous obesity to other studied variables, the acantosis nigricans and the abdominal obesity appeared with major frequency in the children with severe obesity with 94,3% and 95,8% respectively; inside the same category, the study reported 8,3% of patients with arterial hypertension, 45,8% with microalbuminuria print, 20,0% with hipercolesterolemia, 14,6% with hipertrigliceridemia and 27,1% of not alcoholic liver diseases. It were not reported cases with disorders in the fasting glucose.


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