One in five teenagers show signs of heart disease

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David Derbyshire and Roger Highfield, " One in five teenagers show
signs of heart disease", Daily Telegraph, September 7, 2004,
Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...rtal/2004/09/0

The couch potato way of life has become so common that one in five
young teenagers suffers from the early signs of heart disease and
stroke, a disturbing new study has found.

Tests on children aged 11 to 14 showed 20 per cent with the sort of
blood vessel damage normally associated with cardiovascular disease,
regarded as the preserve of adults.

Although the children would be unlikely to show symptoms until middle
age, the study says poor diet and inactivity are having an impact on
health far earlier than many doctors realised.

"This shows us that these changes are occurring from a very early
stage of our lives," said Dr Faisal Khan, of Dundee University, who
led the study. "These could perhaps give us predictions of people who
might be candidates for later cardiovascular diseases such as stroke
and heart disease.

"By implementing lifestyle changes we may be able to reverse the
damage at a stage where this is still possible. If you leave it to the
30s and 40s it is more difficult to control."

The findings come from a study of 158 children living in Dundee. They
were originally recruited as babies for a study of breast and bottle
feeding that began in the 1980s.

Dr Khan and colleagues went back to the group when they reached the
age of 11 and looked at microscopic arteries and capillaries. These
vessels, which are thinner than a human hair, feed blood directly to
the skin and organs.

The children had no symptoms of heart disease and none was clinically
obese, although some were overweight.

The researchers rubbed a drug through their skin to make their blood
vessels expand. The vessels were then monitored using a laser.

In about 20 per cent of children, the tiny capillaries and arteries
failed to expand, suggesting that the cells lining the vessels, a
layer called the endothelium, was damaged. Endothelial cells control a
vessel's ability to contract and dilate.

Children who were overweight, particularly "apple shaped" youngsters
whose fat was found on their midriffs, and those with elevated blood
sugar, were most likely to have damaged blood vessels.

There is "compelling evidence" linking abnormal endothelial function
to the risk of developing heart disease later in life, said Dr Khan.
"My guess is that it is going to be a stronger predictor than
cholesterol because endothelial cells are going to be the first
affected by disease processes."

Problems with tiny blood vessels have previously been linked to
sensitivity to insulin, high blood pressure, body fat and smoking,
which are all potential risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Dr Khan told the British Association science festival at Exeter
University that the findings were worrying.

"If you are looking at the incidence of heart disease in Scotland and
the diet there, these are early signs that we need to be taking some
kind of action in children," he said yesterday.

A study in Hong Kong this year found early signs of furred up arteries
in children as young as 10. Some test results "matched those of a
45-year-old adult who had been smoking for more than 10 years", said
the report's author, Dr Kam Woo, of the Chinese University of Hong
Kong.

The British Heart Foundation said there was growing evidence that
endothelium dysfunction was an "important early event" in the
development of clogged arteries.

Although the study took place in Scotland, which has higher heart
disease rates than the rest of Britain, the findings were likely to be
similar nationally, said Belinda Linden, a foundation spokesman.

"The public perception of coronary heart disease is that it develops
in adult years but that needs to be corrected," she said. "What people
need to be aware of is that the process starts to develop in the early
teens."

About 2.7 million people in Britain suffer from heart disease and the
number is rising. Almost one in eight have been diagnosed with heart
or circulatory disease.

Britain has the developed world's fastest growing rate of obesity, the
BHF says. Only 37 per cent of men and 25 per cent of women take the
recommended 30 minutes exercise at least five times a week.

Some 22 per cent of people are clinically obese and about a quarter of
children are overweight or obese.

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http://www.healthsentinel.com/news.p...st_item&id=210

David Derbyshire and Roger Highfield, " One in five teenagers show
signs of heart disease", Daily Telegraph, September 7, 2004,
Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...rtal/2004/09/0

The couch potato way of life has become so common that one in five
young teenagers suffers from the early signs of heart disease and
stroke, a disturbing new study has found.

Tests on children aged 11 to 14 showed 20 per cent with the sort of
blood vessel damage normally associated with cardiovascular disease,
regarded as the preserve of adults.

Although the children would be unlikely to show symptoms until middle
age, the study says poor diet and inactivity are having an impact on
health far earlier than many doctors realised.

"This shows us that these changes are occurring from a very early
stage of our lives," said Dr Faisal Khan, of Dundee University, who
led the study. "These could perhaps give us predictions of people who
might be candidates for later cardiovascular diseases such as stroke
and heart disease.

"By implementing lifestyle changes we may be able to reverse the
damage at a stage where this is still possible. If you leave it to the
30s and 40s it is more difficult to control."

The findings come from a study of 158 children living in Dundee. They
were originally recruited as babies for a study of breast and bottle
feeding that began in the 1980s.

Dr Khan and colleagues went back to the group when they reached the
age of 11 and looked at microscopic arteries and capillaries. These
vessels, which are thinner than a human hair, feed blood directly to
the skin and organs.

The children had no symptoms of heart disease and none was clinically
obese, although some were overweight.

The researchers rubbed a drug through their skin to make their blood
vessels expand. The vessels were then monitored using a laser.

In about 20 per cent of children, the tiny capillaries and arteries
failed to expand, suggesting that the cells lining the vessels, a
layer called the endothelium, was damaged. Endothelial cells control a
vessel's ability to contract and dilate.

Children who were overweight, particularly "apple shaped" youngsters
whose fat was found on their midriffs, and those with elevated blood
sugar, were most likely to have damaged blood vessels.

There is "compelling evidence" linking abnormal endothelial function
to the risk of developing heart disease later in life, said Dr Khan.
"My guess is that it is going to be a stronger predictor than
cholesterol because endothelial cells are going to be the first
affected by disease processes."

Problems with tiny blood vessels have previously been linked to
sensitivity to insulin, high blood pressure, body fat and smoking,
which are all potential risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Dr Khan told the British Association science festival at Exeter
University that the findings were worrying.

"If you are looking at the incidence of heart disease in Scotland and
the diet there, these are early signs that we need to be taking some
kind of action in children," he said yesterday.

A study in Hong Kong this year found early signs of furred up arteries
in children as young as 10. Some test results "matched those of a
45-year-old adult who had been smoking for more than 10 years", said
the report's author, Dr Kam Woo, of the Chinese University of Hong
Kong.

The British Heart Foundation said there was growing evidence that
endothelium dysfunction was an "important early event" in the
development of clogged arteries.

Although the study took place in Scotland, which has higher heart
disease rates than the rest of Britain, the findings were likely to be
similar nationally, said Belinda Linden, a foundation spokesman.

"The public perception of coronary heart disease is that it develops
in adult years but that needs to be corrected," she said. "What people
need to be aware of is that the process starts to develop in the early
teens."

About 2.7 million people in Britain suffer from heart disease and the
number is rising. Almost one in eight have been diagnosed with heart
or circulatory disease.

Britain has the developed world's fastest growing rate of obesity, the
BHF says. Only 37 per cent of men and 25 per cent of women take the
recommended 30 minutes exercise at least five times a week.

Some 22 per cent of people are clinically obese and about a quarter of
children are overweight or obese.


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