Cardiovascular diseases are the main causes of death and health costs in developed
countries. Although cardiovascular diseases are thought to affect only adulthood, the …

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the
leading cause of death globally, taking an estimated amount of 17.9 million lives each year …

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) may be manifested from a very early age. Genetic and
environmental (epigenetic) factors interact to affect development and give rise to an …

Opinion statement Most children who are normal weight for height and otherwise healthy
have risk factor levels associated with the absence of heart disease (ie, they do not smoke …

The atherosclerotic alterations that are the basis of cardiovascular diseases can start
already in childhood. For this reason the prevention of cardiovascular diseases should be …

In the past few decades there have been great reductions in cardiovascular disease
morbidity and mortality in adults. This has largely been achieved by the recognition and …

Background: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. While
cardiovascular disease typically does not occur until adulthood, the pathogenesis of …

Objectives To correlate cardiovascular risk factors (eg, hypertension, obesity,
hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, hyperglycemia, sedentariness) in childhood …

Over the last decades, childhood and adolescence have emerged as an important window
of opportunity to prevent atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) later in life. Here …

Atherosclerosis starts in childhood, and is accelerated in some individuals. A cluster of
clinical and biochemical factors constitute the risk profile for many of them, perhaps most …