Introduction: Obesity is a public health problem that tends to increase and compromises the health of people. Objectives: To determine the prevalence of metabolically normal obese (OMN) subjects depending on the presence of cardiovascular risk factors in an adult population showing obesity and morbid obesity. Design: Observational, descriptive and cross-section study. Setting: Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Dos de Mayo, Lima, Peru. Participants: Obese adults without metabolic diseases. Interventions: the study was conducted during the period between April 2009 and May 2010 in all adults consulting for obesity and who declared not having type 2 diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension or dyslipidemia. Weight, height and waist circumference (WC) were obtained, and body mass index (BMI) was calculated. Those who had 30 kg/m2 or more were included in the study. Insulin, glucose and li...

Overweight and obesity lead the occurrence of comorbidities such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, anddyslipidemias. Objectives: To determine the presence of cardiovascular risk in children and adolescents overweight and obese,by gender and age groups. Design: Cross sectional study. Participants: Children and adolescents of both genders, 5-18 year-old.Interventions: Diagnosis of overweight and obesity was done according to Must et al. classification with the following criteria: 85 to 95for overweight and more than 95 percentile for obesity. Serum lipid profile, glucose and insulin were analyzed, and with the latter twoHOMA index was determined to identify insulin resistance (IR), using Matthew´s equation, the metabolic syndrome (MS) with referenceto Cook and dyslipidemias (D) with Friedman and Daniels’ suggestions. Main outcome measures: Cardiovascular risk. Results: Obesechi...

Introduction. Vitamin deficiency is being considered a public health problem. Objectives. To describe vitamin D status in female adolescents with obesity. Design. Observational, descriptive, analytical study. Location. Metropolitan Lima. Participants. Teenagers. Interventions. According to body mass index, 111 adolescents were studied, 58 were obese and 53 non-obese. A food survey was performed including those containing vitamin D and vitamin supplements. Waist circumference and blood pressure were obtained. Glucose, lipid profile and 25 hydroxyvitamin D were determined in serum. Vitamin D status was determined by Holick criteria. Statistical analysis used student-t test, chi-square and ANOVA, with a 95% confidence interval and a significance level of <0.05. Main outcome measures. Averages, confidence interval and prevalence. Results. Vitamin D deficiency (<20 ng/mL) was found in 1...