doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000161957.34198.2B
(Circulation. 2005;111:1970-1977.)
© 2005 American Heart Association, Inc.
Pediatric Cardiology |
Factor Analysis of Clustered Cardiovascular Risks in Adolescence
Obesity Is the Predominant Correlate of Risk Among Youth
From the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass (E.G.), and Divisions of Endocrinology (L.M.D.) and Cardiology (J.A.M., S.R.D.), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Correspondence to Elizabeth Goodman, MD, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University MS 35, 415 South St, Waltham, MA 02453-9110. E-mail goodman{at}brandeis.edu
Received November 5, 2004; revision received February 2, 2005; accepted February 4, 2005.
Background— Clustering of cardiovascular (CV) risks begins in childhood, yet studies of the factor structure underlying this clustering have focused on adults. The increasing rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes and the growing importance of metabolic syndrome among adolescents make assessment of CV risk clustering even more urgent in this age group.
Methods and Results— Exploratory factor analysis (principal components analysis) was performed with data from 1578 healthy seventh to 12th graders from the Princeton School District Study, a school-based study in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measured CV risks included cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting insulin and glucose, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, fibrinogen, and blood pressure. Factor analysis yielded 4 uncorrelated factors (adiposity [BMI, waist, fibrinogen, insulin], cholesterol [LDL and total cholesterol], carbohydrate-metabolic [glucose, insulin, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides], and blood pressure [systolic and diastolic blood pressure]). These factors explained approximately 67% of the total variance. A summary cumulative risk scale was derived from factor scores, and high risk was defined as scoring in the top 5%. Although insulin loaded onto both the adiposity and carbohydrate-metabolic factors, obesity was a much stronger correlate of high cumulative risk (odds ratio=19.2; 95% CI, 7.6 to 48.5) than hyperinsulinemia (odds ratio=3.5; 95% CI, 1.8 to 6.8). A sizable proportion (18.5%; n=12) of those who were at high cumulative risk were not at high risk for any of the individual factors.
Conclusions— The patterning of CV risk clustering seen among adults is present in healthy adolescents. Among youth, obesity is the predominant correlate of cumulative risk.
Key Words: atherosclerosis • obesity • pediatrics • risk factors • metabolic syndrome X
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