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25
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20
15
0 4 8 12 16 20
Age (Years)
*Adapted with permission from data of Table 4 from Cole TJ et al. (16). Data obtained by averaging the national centiles.
BMI: Body Mass Index. Filled circles: curve for overweight boys; filled square: curve for obese boys;
filled upward triangles: curve for overweight girls; filled downward triangles: curve for obese girls.
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sex-specific data sets, following recommenda- apparent contradiction could partially depend
tions from the International Obesity Task Force on the span of the retrospective studies and on
(16, 17). International age- and sex-specific BMI the years included. Nevertheless, the present
cut-offs for overweight and obese girls and boys high number of young adults with the stigmata
are illustrated in Figure 1. Applying this concept of the metabolic syndrome (MetS), and the re-
to BMI trajectory, Attard et al. (18) demonstrat- lated non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
ed that the odds for diabetes were 2.35 higher justifies that it be considered a major world pub-
for those with a BMI of 30 kg/m2 relative to lic health issue (24). This review briefly describes
young male adults who had maintained a BMI the various potential causes of obesity in youth
of 23 kg/m2 over an average of 12 years. These and underscores the available biomarkers for as-
data suggest there is potential for improving sociated conditions.
the ability to assess the effect of paediatric obe-
sity on development of diseases at a later time Definite BMI thresholds to identify an increased
point. Secular trends demonstrate that the prev- risk for CMD cannot be used in childhood and ado-
alence has plateaued in some countries (19) or lescence. Age- and sex-specific BMI cut-offs to de-
even decreased (20), but has continued to rise fine overweight and obesity and predict trajectory
in others, independent of how overweight and into adulthood should be utilized using different
obesity are defined in childhood (1, 21-23). The nationally representative age- and sex-specific data.
Nutrition
Obesity Environment
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Legend: (p for interaction = 0.02) in EA (a), and 0, 1 and 2 risk (A) GNPDA2 (rs10938397) alleles, respectively (p for
interaction = 0.03) in AA (b).
Abbreviations: BMI (body mass index), ST (hours per week of screen time), EA (European American), AA (African
American).
Beta estimates are presented for the interaction model: Multivariable linear models of adolescent BMI Z scores
regressed on SNP and ST (hr/wk), with SNP by ST interaction term, controlling for age, sex, current smoking (at least
one cigarette every day for 30 days), geographic region, and self-reported heights and weights (n=39 EA, n= 12
AA), oversampling of highly educated African Americans (n=281; AA stratum only). Random intercepts allowed for
individual, family and school with no sample weighting.
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are documented in each study, they are mod- stems from the early work of Barker et al. (41),
est, and individually cannot explain the devel- who proposed that the tendency to store ab-
opment of obesity or the onset of related dis- dominal fat might be a persistent response to
eases. Additionalt studies are required
p;
to probe adverse conditions which initiated in the foe-
the relationship between polymorphisms in tal life stage but persisted throughout infancy.
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9 1.88/2.07
Immunoassay
French Canadian 13 M/F 3.28/3.86 (76)
(Access, Beckman Coulter)
16 3.31/3.10
Fluoroimmunoassay
Brazilian 10-19 M/F >2.93 (77)
(AutoDelfia, Pharmacia)
Chemiluminescence
Immunoassay American 11-14 M/F 2.7 (78)
(Immulite, Siemens)
Chemiluminescence
Immunoassay Spanish 8-18 M/F 3.6 (79)
(Cobas, Roche Diagnostics)
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HMP
Bacteroidetes
Firmicutes Others 0.3%
Proteobacteria 0.4%
Verrucomicrobia Akkermansia 0.9%
Others 0.2%
Actinobacteria
Others
Escherichia 0.8%
Sutterella 1.1%
Others 2.6%
Butyrivibrio 1.5%
Roseburia 1.5%
Dialister 2.3%
Others 6.6%
MetaHit
Bacteroides 21.8%
Roseburia 3.9%
Dialister 4.0%
Eubacterium 14.7%
Faecalibacterium 5.7%
Ruminococcus 6.0%
*Reproduced with permission from: Aurora T et al. J Intern Med 2016 Apr 12. doi: 10.1111/joim.12508.
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of the flora in obese subjects reveals a bimod- elucidated but opens the way to possible treat-
al distribution: those with a low gene count ment of obesity via dietary manipulation. For
(LGC) characterised by the predominance of example, a low calorie regiment composed of
5 pro-inflammatory bacteria and a less diver- plant fibres, proteins and low carbohydrates
sified metagenome, and those with a high potentially increases the microbiota diversity
gene count (HGC) with a high percentage of (61). Interestingly, bariatric surgery also in-
4 anti-inflammatory bacteria genii (60). The creases the gut microbiota diversity (62, 63).
LGC group presents with insulin-resistance, As each microbiotic species transforms the
dyslipidemia and low-level infiltration of adi- undigested and partially digested food into
pose tissue with pro-inflammatory cytokine metabolites that may influence the physiolog-
secreting immunity cells. It has recently been ical systems of the host, a loss in diversity may
established that levels of butyrate-producing lead to unwanted effects.
bacteria are reduced in patients with type-2
diabetes, whereas levels of Lactobacillus sp. The gut microbiota, a new player in the world
are increased, thus the reduction of butyrate- of obesity and cardiometabolic diseases, is
producing bacteria may be causally linked to increasingly called upon to elucidate findings
type 2 diabetes. The causal relationship for related to these diseases and may eventually
these differences in humans remains to be impact their course and treatment.
Figure 5 Impact of obesity on health status
Obesity
Dyslipidemia
Hypertension
Impaired coagulation
Hyperinsulinemia
Impaired glucose metabolism
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concentrations). In theory, this information and confirm the warning of Wallace et al. (79):
is valuable and may alert clinicians to even- The HOMA model has become a widely used
tual liver function impairment but there are clinical and epidemiological tool and, when
issues around defining an abnormal elevated used appropriately, it can yield valuable data.
fasting insulin concentration because the data However, as with all models, the primary input
on reference values in fasting insulinemia are data need to be robust, and the data need to
scarce. In addition, the lack of standardization be interpreted carefully. To address this issue,
or harmonization between different insulin the IFCC (http://www.ifcc.org/ifcc-scientific-di-
assays hampers direct comparison between vision/sd-working-groups/wg-sia/), in collabo-
laboratories, peer-reviewed publications, and ration with the American Diabetes Association
impedes coherent measures for treatment (ADA) and the European Association for the
guidelines. This was highlighted in 2007 by Study of Diabetes (EASD), has created the
the IFCC Working Group on Standardization of Working group on Standardisation of Insulin
Insulin Assays, in an evaluation of 12 commer- Assays (WG-SIA) with the mandate of improv-
cial insulin methods (75). The within-assay CVs ing the standardization of assays for insulin
ranged from 3.7% to 39.0% and between assay by the development of a candidate reference
CVs from 12% to 66% (75). In 2009 the working method based on liquid chromatography-tan-
group reported that 4 out of 10 insulin assays, dem mass spectrometry, and of a lyophilized
when re-calibrated with a purified recombinant recombinant human insulin preparation as pri-
insulin preparation, had 95% of the 39 indi- mary reference material.
vidual donor sera results within 32% of the tar- Although insulin resistance is a well-recognized
get value assigned by an isotope dilution-mass clinical entity, there are currently no interna-
spectrometry assay. In addition, 7 of 10 assays tionally accepted definition of its expression in
had a bias >15% in 36 to 100% of individual children and adolescents. One well-character-
samples. The consensus group concluded that ized definition requires the presence of three or
agreement between assays would improve us- more factors which can be age-adjusted to de-
ing an international reference material and a fine hyperinsulinaemia: Overweight, high sys-
higher order mass spectrometry method (76). tolic blood pressure, hypertriglyceridemia, low
Subsequent high-throughput mass spectrom- HDL-cholesterol and impaired fasting plasma
etry immunoassays have been developed to glucose (84).
quantitate human intact insulin as well as in-
sulin analogs, which may allow an accurate Data on normal reference intervals for fasting
definition of insulinemia to be determined (77, insulinemia are scarce.
78). Accurate measurement of plasma insulin
Lack of standardized or harmonized insulin as-
is of paramount importance for establishing
says hampers comparison between laboratories
comparable Homeostasis Model Assessment
and impedes coherent measures for treatment
of IR (HOMA-IR) reference values across labo-
guidelines.
ratories, although variation between ethnic
populations may be a confounding factor that Distinguishing MHO young patients from those
should be taken into consideration. At the pres- unhealthy bears a major clinical importance as
ent time HOMA-IR cut-offs are still highly meth- they are, for reasons that are yet to be defined,
od dependent. Table 2 illustrates the distribu- resistant to develop CMD; hence follow-up and
tion of published cut-off points for defining IR, treatment differ (64). Low-grade inflammation
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and cellular redox potential imbalance are, to- Well-defined age-, sex- and ethnicity-adjusted
gether with insulin resistance, key-role players reference values or thresholds have to be de-
in the development of the non-healthy state in fined if they are to be used for clinical purposes.
obese subjects.
Visceral adipose tissue per se and its resident
macrophages contribute importantly to sys-
INFLAMMATION
temic inflammation by secreting adipokines and
Inflammation is the second cause in the devel- pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines. Indeed,
opment of CMD and NAFLD related to paediat- clinical studies have consistently shown elevat-
ric obesity. A number of biomarkers have been ed blood concentrations of pro-inflammatory
identified but primarily in the context of clini- cytokines such as IL-6, IL-8, TNF, PAI-1, resis-
cal trials, thus their specificity, sensitivity and tin and amylin in overweight and obese insulin-
predictive values have yet to be defined for resistant youth (87-90). However, this relation-
screening and diagnostic purposes. C-Reactive ship does not imply unanimity. A recent report
Protein (CRP), a member of the pantraxin fam- has noted that the relationship between pro-in-
ily involved in plaque instability, is the most flammatory and metabolic markers commonly
commonly utilized inflammatory biomarker. observed in adults and pubertal adolescents
Although the sensitivity of CRP is generally is reversed in healthy black and white children
high, the specificity is low, particularly in the before puberty, which warrants questions as to
setting of potential low-grade inflammation. whether these inverse relationships modify the
Nevertheless, discrete elevation in circulating trajectory later in life (91). Population-based
CRP concentrations has been associated in the studies focused on evaluating pro-inflammatory
and metabolic markers to determine which bio-
definition of the metabolic syndrome (84, 85).
markers constitute sensitive and specific tools
Its advantage resides in its wide accessibility
in the context of a diagnosis of insulin resis-
by central laboratories. However, as for any
tance would be valuable.
other biomarkers, well-defined age-, sex- and
ethnicity-adjusted reference values or thresh-
OXIDATIVE STRESS
olds have to be defined if they are to be used
for clinical purposes. The analytical sensitiv- Oxidative stress is often a neglected cause of
ity, even for the high-sensitivity CRP (hsCRP) paediatric obesity-related morbidities, and no
test, however, limits the definition of refer- biomarkers have been successfully validated
ence ranges. One European population-based yet for routine clinical use. To our knowledge
study reported that 44% of the 9855 children there are no clinical research studies demon-
tested exhibited serum CRP concentrations strating that circulating concentrations of malo-
below the detection limit (0.2 mg/l) and con- nyldialdehyde (MDA), Hydroxynonenal (HNE),
firmed our observation (85) to the effect that advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) and
obesity influenced serum CRP concentrations 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine (8-OH-dG), which
(86). are surrogate markers for lipids, proteins and
deoxyribonucleic acid damages respectively,
C-Reactive Protein (CRP) is the most commonly are effective diagnostic tools for CMD in child-
utilized biomarker of inflammation. The speci- hood and adolescence.
ficity of CRP is questionable, particularly in the In an observational study performed on 35
setting of low-level inflammation. children between the ages of 12 and 18 years,
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