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Body Mass Index; Cardiovascular Diseases -- epidemiology; Cardiovascular Diseases -- etiology; Child; Risk Factors
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Screening For Cardiovascular Disease In Children, Jesse Fladmark
Screening For Cardiovascular Disease In Children, Jesse Fladmark
Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters
Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death in the world with significant burden on the health care system.
Review of Literature: The focus of this paper is to look at previous studies, mostly systematic reviews and metaanalysis, in search of various clinical screening methods in the pediatric population for determining cardiovascular disease risk. Waist to height ratio can be used to screen children for cardiovascular disease with a specificity of 96% when using 0.55 as the cut-off point. An increase in waist circumference along with increased BMI places a child at a much higher risk of …