Cardiac remodeling and dysfunction in childhood obesity: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study

Table 1 Clinical and demographic parameters, and body composition of the study population

	Obese/Overweight n = 41	Healthy n = 29	p value
Age (years)	12 ± 3	14 ± 3	0.04
Sex (M/F)	18/23	17/12	0.33
Weight (kg)	73 ± 23	52 ± 15	<0.001
Height (cm)	157 ± 11	164 ± 18	0.05
Body Mass Index (kg/m ² )	29 ± 6	19 ± 2	<0.001
Body Mass Index Percentile	97 ± 3	42 ± 24	<0.001
Body Mass Index z-score	2.0 ± 0.4	−0.3 ± 0.8	<0.001
Heart rate (beats/min)	74 ± 11	70 ± 8	0.09
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	116 ± 13	108 ± 8	0.006
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)	73 ± 7	71 ± 6	0.25
Mean arterial pressure (mmHg)	87 ± 8	83 ± 7	0.04
Subcutaneous adipose tissue (cm ² )	385 ± 172	89 ± 48	<0.001
Visceral adipose tissue (cm ² )	53 ± 23	17 ± 10	<0.001
Epicardial adipose tissue (cm ³ ) ^a	32 ± 27	14 ± 9^b	<0.001

^aEpicardial adipose tissue is in units of cm³ since it was quantified using a 3D stack of SSFP images. All other measures were derived from a single imaging plane and are therefore reported as areas (cm²)
^bOne of the 29 healthy weight subjects did not complete cine imaging and was therefore not included in the comparison of epicardial adipose tissue

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