Overweight 3-year-olds with signs of heart disease?
Obese children show signs of having elevated levels of an inflammation marker that in adults is considered an early warning for future heart disease.
"A lot more work needs to be done before we figure out the full implication of these findings. But this study tells us that very young, obese children already have more inflammation than children who are not obese, and that's very concerning," says Eliana Perrin, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and senior author of the study.
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