Cardiovascular Risk in 26,008 European Overweight Children as Established by a Multicenter Database

Objective: Although the obesity epidemic is progressing in European children too, there is no consensus on the population‐specific prevalence of comorbidities or efficient diagnostic strategies. Therefore, weight‐related risk factors, their interrelationship, and association with biological parameters were assessed in a large group of overweight (OW) children, documented by an electronic database.

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