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ReviewCurrent cardiology reports2026

A Growing Burden: Obesity's Impact on Cardiometabolic Disease Risk in Children and Adolescents.

Vince J Catalfamo, Samer Farhud, John Mulkey, Carl J Lavie

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Review in Current cardiology reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Vince J CatalfamoDepartment of Internal Medicine, Ochsner Health Foundation, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA.
Samer FarhudDepartment of Internal Medicine, Ochsner Health Foundation, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA.
John MulkeyDepartment of Internal Medicine, Ochsner Health Foundation, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA.
Carl J LavieDepartment of Cardiovascular Health, Ochsner Health Foundation, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121, USA. clavie@ochsner.org.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewAs the obesity epidemic expands, the alarming acceleration of youth obesity represents a critical global health concern. This timely analysis explores the underlying biological and socio-environmental drivers of childhood obesity and evaluates its role in the growing incidence of cardiometabolic disease. Moreover, this review aims to identify the limitations of existing preventive health systems and examine intervention strategies designed to mitigate the escalating burdens imposed by pediatric obesity. RECENT

findingsContemporary research seeks to characterize distinct youth obesity phenotypes and to distinguish measurable markers of adiposity in early life that are implicated in the progression of cardiometabolic dysfunction. Recognizing the deficiencies of modern exercise education curricula, studies evaluating the implementation of school-based health interventions have demonstrated significant improvements in body composition and metabolic profiles among children and adolescents. The long-term health and societal consequences posed by rising pediatric obesity constitute one of the greatest population health challenges of our time. Future research should prioritize uncovering additional genetic and epigenetic determinants of youth obesity and emphasize the equitable delivery of early, accessible, and sustainable school-based health promotion programs to reverse the global trajectory of obesity-related cardiometabolic disease.

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Cardiovascular DiseasesMetabolic SyndromePediatric ObesityAdolescentCardiometabolic Risk FactorsChildExerciseHealth PromotionHumansRisk FactorsSchool Health ServicesCardiometabolic riskEarly interventionObesity phenotypesPreventive cardiologySchool-based health promotionYouth obesity

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PMID41665704

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