Risk factors involved in the early onset and severity of childhood obesity

Childhood obesity is linked to a family history of obesity, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, with the most severely obese children showing insulin resistance

"We also show that the problem of childhood obesity is not simply related to an increase in the number of diagnoses, but also the severity of obesity in younger children. If this obesity persists over time, these children will have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular and metabolic complications in young adulthood."