Cardiovascular Risk Factors for Hypertension and Diabetes among Overweight and Obese Adolescents in the City of Kerbala, Iraq

Abstract

Hypertension and diabetes share the highest contribution to global burden of cardiovascular (CVD) and metabolic diseases. Factors such as obesity, poor diet choices and sedentary lifestyle predisposes to dyslipidemia and hyperglycemia which leads to elevations in blood pressure and diabetes respectively. In this study, we show that the progression of these diseases can be identified in adolescence by identifying the prevalence of pre-hypertension and pre-diabetes as well as CVD risk factors for hypertension and diabetes among adolescents in Kerbala city, Iraq