Glucose metabolism disorders in obese children

Dang Thi Kim Giang, Nguyen Ngoc Khanh

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Obesity is a pathological condition characterized by abnormal or excessive fat deposits that can impair health including insulin resistance and glucose metabolism disorders. We studied on 437 children with age of 5-18 years diagnosed obesity at the Vietnam National Children’s Hospital from June 2023 to June 2024 by cross-sectional descrption, retrospective, with objective: “Describe glucose metabolism disorder in obese children”. In our corhort, the male: female ratio was 64.3:35.7 (1.8:1); the group of children with age of 5 - 10 years accounting for 70.02%. The body mass index (BMI) according to Z-score of boys was 3.19 ± 1.24, higher than that of girls at 2.78 ± 0.66 (p = 0.00017). The rate of children with acanthosis nigricans was 49.88%, the rate of hyperinsulinemia was 32.2%. The rate of prediabetes 31.08%, type 2 diabetes mellitus was 1.2%.

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