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Relationship between visceral obesity and plasma fibrinogen in obese children

  • Mona Hafez , Sahar El-Masry , Noha Musa EMAIL logo , Marwa Fathy , Mona Hassan , Nayera Hassan , Mohamed El Husseiny and Mahmoud Tareef
Published/Copyright: November 13, 2015

Abstract

Background: The prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents has increased significantly worldwide with an alarming rise of its co-morbidities. The excess of visceral adipose tissue is associated with hypertension, prothrombotic and pro-inflammatory states. Our aim was to find a possible association between visceral obesity and plasma fibrinogen, as one of the cardiovascular risk factors, in obese children.

Methods: Forty-three obese children and 40 non-obese controls were studied regarding their history, complete physical examination, anthropometric assessment, body composition analysis, ultrasonographic measurement of visceral adipose tissue and subcutaneous fat as well as laboratory measurement of plasma fibrinogen.

Results: Our study revealed significant higher levels of fibrinogen in obese children than controls (14.5+5.1 and 2.9+0.52 mg/mL, respectively) with p-value <0.01. Moreover, the obese group had statistically significant difference in visceral fat (5.96+0.77 cm) and subcutaneous fat (2.66+0.70 cm) than controls (2.45+0.65 and 0.70+0.18 mg/mL, respectively) with p-value <0.01. In addition, fibrinogen had significant positive correlation with body mass index (r=0.327), waist/hip ratio (r=0.394), fat percentage (r=0.301), visceral adipose tissue (r=0.323) and subcutaneous fat (r=0.301).

Conclusions: There was highly significant increase in the fibrinogen level, visceral and subcutaneous abdominal fat in the obese group with insignificant sex differences. Fibrinogen had a significant positive correlation with the different adiposity markers, blood pressure, visceral and subcutaneous fat. Visceral adipose tissue is a stronger predictor for cardiovascular risk compared to subcutaneous fat.


Corresponding author: Noha Musa, Lecturer of Pediatrics, Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolism Pediatric Unit, Pediatric Department, Cairo University, 12111 Cairo, Egypt, Phone: +2 01225304041, E-mail:

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Received: 2015-7-1
Accepted: 2015-9-3
Published Online: 2015-11-13
Published in Print: 2016-3-1

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