Obese or overweight children risk vision damage

    Obese or overweight children risk vision damage

    Obese or overweight children are more at risk for retinal changes and metabolic syndrome. This was revealed by a new study conducted at the Bambin Gesù hospital in Rome

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    Unfortunately thechildhood obesity it is a problem that increasingly affects Western countries and which is being tried to stem with policies aimed above all at correct food information whose protagonists are obviously the parents who will then buy more or less healthy food for their children. The results are still scarce and in the meantime confirmations continue to arrive of how obesity and overweight in childhood can compromise the health of children right away but also in adulthood.

    According to reports from a study conducted by the Bambin Gesù pediatric hospital in Rome, too much weight as a child would lead, among other things, to damage to sight. The research, conducted on a sample of 1000 overweight children monitored for two years, for the first time found a correlation between obesity and eye health in particular of the retinal microcirculation.

    9% of the obese children showed changes in the retina while none of the normal weight children accused this problem. However, this is not the only situation found thanks to this study. Valerio Nobili, responsible for hepato-metabolic diseases of the Child Jesus, by the way stated:

    “The data that emerged is surprising both for the percentage and for the severity given that, if neglected, this alteration could evolve towards more advanced stages up to visual impairment. Children with severe retinopathy also had higher triglyceride levels, greater insulin resistance and reduced nocturnal physiological drop in systolic blood pressure, a predictor of arterial hypertension. "

    Experts therefore advise to have all obese children undergo an eye examination in particular if too high blood pressure has already been found.

    The liver is also affected by overweight in childhood: in recent years the problem of obesity has increased, at the same time, cases of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, or the so-called fatty liver (over 50% of obese children seem to suffer from it).



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