In light of the increase in childhood obesity, Hebrew University's Jeremy Kark, along with Dr Gilad Twig of the Sheba Medical Centre, Dr Hagai Levine of the Braun School and other colleagues in Israel, set out to reslut the association between body-mass index (BMI) in late adolescence and death from cardiovascular causing in adulthood.
Their study explained national database of 2.3 million Israeli 17-year-olds in which height and weight measured between 1967 and 2010. The researchers assessed the association between BMI in late adolescence and death from coronary heart disease, stroke, and sudden death in adulthood by mid-2011.
The results showed a fastest growth in the risk of cardiovascular death in the group that was seen within the "accepted normal" range of BMI, in the 50th to 74th percentiles, and of death from coronary heart disease at BMI costs above 20. The researchers resulted that even BMI considered "normal" amid adolescence was associated with a graded increase in cardiovascular and all-cause mortality during the 40 years of follow-up. This included increased rates of death from coronary heart disease, stroke, and total cardiovascular causes among participants.
Kark said, “ that the findings appear to provide a link between the trends in adolescent overweight during the past decades and coronary mortality in midlife. The continuing increase in adolescent BMI, and the rising prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents, may account for a substantial and growing future burden of cardiovascular disease, particularly coronary heart disease”.