Prevalencia de dislipidemias en pacientes de 10 a 15 años con sobrepeso y obesidad en el Hospital General del norte de Guayaquil los Ceibos desde enero del 2018 a mayo del 2022.

Abstract

Currently, obesity and overweight are considered an epidemic, since it represents a public health problem worldwide, which predisposes to trigger cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. In children, these types of alterations in nutritional status can be frequently observed, together with alterations in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Dyslipidemias are very common in overweight and obese populations. Nowadays, it is known about the atherogenic potential of dyslipidemias and the long-term complication that they have. The objective of this study is to stablish how prevalent dyslipidemias are in obese and overweight patients as precursors of metabolic diseases in the pediatric population to achieve a correct focus on prevention and treatment. Results: It was obtained that around 48% of the sample had some type of hypercholesterolemia, 54% hypertriglyceridemia and at least 68% of the patients in the sample had some type of dyslipidemia. Conclusion: The prevalence of dyslipidemia in pediatric patients seems to be high and occurs more frequently in males, sedentary lifestyle seems to be related to dyslipidemia through the appearance of obesity or overweight, comorbidities more related to obesity and the overweight were hepatic steatosis, insulin resistance, hypothyroidism, bronchial asthma, polycystic ovary syndrome, anxiety disorders and hypertension and finally the most frequent sign or symptoms in this type of patients seems to be acanthosis nigricans.