2008, Number 2
Hypercholesterolemia in children; a real problem?
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ABSTRACT
In order to determine the percentage of children and adolescents supposedly healthy presenting figures considered at risk or frank with hypercholesterolemia, either with a family history of the same or without them, arriving at the Laboratory of the Hospital General de Zapopan other determinations are studied 153 patients (84 males and 69 females) aged between 5 and 18 selected at random and were investigated by questionnaire their family history of hypercholesterolemia and/or conditions related to this. Your eating habits, physical activity and addictions, trying to assess whether these variables have some influence of serum cholesterol. For the statistical treatment were taken measures of central tendency and Student’s t test was used. The results found that 22.87% of patients presented figures cholesterol above the ideal value. 81.7% had a family history of hypercholesterolemia or aliments related to it. 16.3% of the patients studied were with figures cholesterol considered at risk (of ≥ 170 mg/dL and ‹ 200 mg/dL) with an average figure of cholesterol 186.44 mg/dL and 6.5 figures frankly hypercholesterolemics (› 200 mg/dL) with an average figure of cholesterol 222.8 mg/dL. It formed a group which included those who had a family history of hypercholesterolemia or ailments related to this and another with those who do not show up. In these groups found that 15.2% of patients with a family history figures cholesterol risk, where in the group without this background, only 10.7% presented. As for cholesterol levels greater than 200 mg/dL considered pathological, was found in 7.2% of patients with a family history and only 3.5% of patients with no such history, showing a higher incidence of both figures risk and hypercholesterolemia in the group with a family history. When comparing the figures for total cholesterol between the two groups, with no statistically significant differences were found. As for dietary intake, no significant difference was found between the two groups, as happened in relation to physical activity and the habit of watching television. None of those included in the study presented addictions. Comparing the figures risk groups and those with hypercholesterolemia frank figures, only in terms of the intake of fries, 40% of patients with hypercholesterolemia consume every day, against a 27.2% in the group with figures of risk. In physical activity, 80% of patients with figures hypercholesterolemics not practiced any sport, against 50% of the group with figures of risk. Also in relation to the habit of watching television, 80% of patients with hypercholesterolemia figures watch television more than 3 hours per day, against 59.1% in the group with figures of risk. This shift reflects a correlation between poor dietary intake and poor physical activity with high levels of cholesterol. The 59% of patients with figures cholesterol or high risk, were between the ages of 8 and 11 years.REFERENCES
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