Finnish Study Finds Presence of Metabolic Disorders in Children as Young as Six Years Old

A new study conducted by researchers at University of Eastern Finland suggests that children as young as 6 to 8 years old can suffer from metabolic disorders, such as excess abdominal fat, raised blood pressure, higher levels of insulin, glucose and triglycerides and lower levels of the beneficial HDL cholesterol. These metabolic risk factors often accumulate in overweight children and, in the newly published study, this accumulation was linked with mild artery wall ...

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